Damn how am I gonna learn about Rampart?
Lemmy needs to come up with their own term for an AMA.
Lemmy Ask You
That’s fucking perfect
Or from the reverse, Lemmy Answer You. Are we okay with the inevitable shortened version being LAY? Perhaps we should keep the “anything” on the end so it becomes LAYA. Much better SEO.
Public let me ask you anything PLAYA
Publicly Lemme Ask Your Earnest Radical Opinion Nobody Expected
I don’t get it, what’s wrong with LAY?.
It’s already a word, which is bound to create confusion and be harder to search for.
LAYA is also a homophone for a certain space princess, but the spelling is unique.
Quick someone make it real
You won.
That felt real good
Nice
LAMA
Ask someone something.
Ding ding, we have a winner.
AMAR - Ask Me About Rampart
Eh Reddit doesn’t own that term, let’s just take it
I agree. Reddit didn’t trademark AMA so that means we can use it too.
I don’t think Lemmy is big enough for more high profile people to come here. The main reason celebrities do AMAs are for publicity for whatever they’re promoting. Lemmy has way less total users than /r/iama has.
It wasn’t originally any celebrities or high profile people at all, it was literally like, “I’m a postal worker who’s also an amputee, AMA” and it was great. Rampart ruined the format, IMO.
I thought about this the other day.
I couldn’t care about high profile AMA
Seriously. A few were cool. But most were pretty much just marketing teams with celebrities who couldn’t care less about the 2011 hit crime drama Rampart starring Woody Harrelson
I love the smaller ones. And I think that made early reddit AMA great. Also whoever that girl was that helped do the AMAs was great. Who remembers that era. She was a mini celebrity and then they fired her.
Lemmy could definitely make headway by going back to the basics and doing AMA with random people with cool or niche expertise
Her name was Victoria and she was responsible for making AMAs as big as they ever were. When she left is when they really went downhill.
Yep. She was the canary in the coal mine.
It doesn’t have to start with A-listers.
ASA - ask someone anything
This triggers geometry memories with right triangles.
Angle Side Angle
Looks like a certain super talented Australian actress picked the right place to promote “Barbie”.
Margot Elise Robbie, you’re a genius.
Margo
I just hope my wad of hundreds is enough to include popcorn and drinks.
Margot Elise Robbie, your posts of tech commentary and promotion of “Barbie” on in theaters July 21st is AMAZING!!!
That’s “character actress Margot Robbie, marketing genius” for you!
What is this referring to?
It’s refering to my new movie, “Barbie”, silly.
Imma need to see your verification pic, Ms. Robbie.
Ew no you’re just going to post it to lemmynsfw.
I mean, you’re welcome to do one with your clothes on.
AMAs died when Reddit fired Victoria, they haven’t been worth a shit in a while.
Victoria leaving was tragic but can we talk about Rampart?
I just had a good laugh at myself because rampart is so non-existent in my mind, that I had to Google what the hell you were talking about.
So Woody Harrelson is forever famous for the worst AMA ever because he aggressively plugged a movie that must’ve been so bad and irrelevant that I have no idea what people are talking about when they reference it today.
Lol I remember someone in that thread asking Woody if he remembered taking a high school girl to her prom and knocking her up. And the social media manager faking Woody’s involvement just answering “can we stick to the movie?”
Yeah the entire AMA was a dumpster fire, but that was when things really devolved. It quickly got upvoted to the top, and it refused to die. Every single comment he made was quickly bombed with “why haven’t you answered that prom question yet” responses.
Why would they want to do something for free for a company that shows them no appreciation? This is the right move.
Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get. How can you be so disregarded, have your opinion so thoroughly dismissed, and then just keep creating content and driving traffic to the company? Fuck capitalism, but fuck reddit in this particular instance.
I didn’t even care about the original API issue that much but when spez started talking shit and heavy handing mods it left such a bad taste that I’m here on Lemmy now.
There are a couple small subreddits I’m part of that are lifelines, close communities for people who need a space to share information & be themselves. I’ve checked in on them once during the past month & they’re still holding together. The mods are staying because those small groups of users need them & don’t have another place to go. I expect once the Fediverse spawns more highly specialized niche communities, they’ll drift over.
AMAs stopped being interesting a while ago. It was more like a quick press release session with celebrities trying to promote their latest stuff.
I kinda miss the IAmA part of it. People like us in usual or unusual circumstances sharing their daily lives. Like researchers in remote islands, members of ethnicities or cultures that rarely get media attention, cool or unconventional jobs and how they got there, etc. People and their stories.
Yep, that’s why it was interesting. Celebs are mostly boring and already have access to platforms if they want to talk to people.
I want to hear from people who I’d normally never get to listen to and who want to share details of their interests.
Podcasts, too. Like, Jeremy Irons is such a great actor, but it’s boring hearing him talk about his castle and riding horses. Hearing 2 comedians talk is fun, though.
Agreed, all it is now is a marketing stunt. Usually with responses built by some lawyer or publicist. But anyway, 1 horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses?
Guys. I’m here to discuss the movie Rampart.
It’s definitely 1 horse sized duck. I mean 100 duck sized horses would swarm you in seconds! I don’t get why everyone thinks they can just stomp 100 of anything!! They would circle you and it would be over!
I wonder if AMAs will ever come to Lemmy. Part of the attraction for AMAs on Reddit was the immediate interaction with a mass audience.
Lemmy, as it stands doesn’t have that mass media presence.
I remember how James Corden got fucked over while holding his AMA. Good times.
The Fediverse needs to trick him over here too, so we can do it again. See it as the Fediverses official legitimization or coming-of-age ceremony on the internet.
I memba this. That was crazy.
I don’t, what happened?
Here- this way you don’t have to go to Reddit to read about it- https://www.distractify.com/p/james-corden-ama-mean
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It’s so weird. Ellen is a horrible mean person but she gets a talk show. Corden is a horrible mean person and he gets a talk show. Is it because Carson was also a horrible mean person or something?
I bet spez is really regretting that “landed gentry” comment now. IAmA is one of reddit’s most well-known communities.
It was a flawed system, but it really benefited Reddit. Volunteer mods did it because they were supposed to be the leaders of their communities and reddit was supposed to just be a platform for hosting them. By attacking that system they removed the main incentive for volunteer mods to exist.
Spez pm’d me and said he canceled my AMA because my elbows are too pointy. :(
I thought I would keep using old.reddit after they killed RiF but I’ve abandoned the platform all together. Finally got my lemmy account and I’m not going back. Google still shows me Reddit when I search for just about anything but I’m actively avoiding them.
That was my line of thinking too, more or less. After RiF, I was like "I guess RedReader is still up, since they got an exemption! I’ll just wait out till July 1 then switch to that.
But the day after the protest, I just decided to drop the platform altogether. It felt spineless calling out reddit on their bullshit, just to fall in line and still give traffic to their site.
For me, it wasn’t so much the loss of third party apps as it was the way the admins handled it. I had never realized how little they actually valued their community. Instead, everything was about the money. Too bad they failed to see that users and the content they created was the reason Reddit was worth anything in the first place.
There were absolutely paths forward that would have worked to allow 3rd party apps without price gouging them. The whole thing was in bad faith and they never wanted to allow 3rd party apps at all, they just didn’t want to announce they were kicking them off the platform. It wasn’t just about the money, it was about control. Control over the users by forcing them to use their app where they could push unwanted content on you and degrade your experience to maximize profits. The 3rd party apps made money by providing a better user experience which was directly counter to their aims to maximize profits.
3rd party apps did not make a huge percentage of the user base, so why were they so afraid of them? I think the answer is that they are planning on making the user experience on the main app much worse and they know users would be looking for alternatives after, so they went out to kill the alternatives, or charge them an insane amount.
Just add “-reddit.com” to the ed of your query and the search engine will omit results from that site.
I hope someday instead of google, I go to a website that has the fediverse indexed and directs me right to a Lemmy thread with my answer.
Google is shit, Reddit was what I searched for everything on and now Reddit is shit.
Let’s fucking go Lemmy I have faith in you
Here you go! 🤓
A gentleman, a scholar, and an all-around good person.
It annoys me how none of the news articles mention spez’s lying about the Apollo Dev trying to blackmail Reddit.
That’s the singular thing that drove me away.
That was the event that changed me from “sure, I’ll wait out a two day protest” to “wow, I should stop using this website.”
Hey this is X celebrity, btw check my latest project, coming out tomorrow. Amas quickly became an easy promotional platform.
Not if it’s my latest project, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.
Who’s managing this account?
Academy Award nominated actress Margot Robbie can manage her own Lemonworld account!
(Don’t tell my publicist please)
Lemonworld 😂
I love it!
It’s give and take. As long as they also answer the questions it’s pretty effective. Why else would a celebrity or politician so an ama?
Idk for fun? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s one of the reasons I stopped going to them. Once I realized that if I saw an AMA for a specific person, it must have meant that they were just there shilling some new project.
I mean it’s literally no different from guests on talk shows or podcasts. They are almost never there just for fun.
And I get it. Why would you put yourself through that unless you’re promoting something?
There use to be some AMAs of bored pseudo celebs and they would just show up to take some fan questions and then bounce back to the woodwork… thats the type of shit I like.
Calling promotion shilling is a bit silly though.
Is it?
I think Promotion = Shilling… just a bit more derogatory term.
Most of the time, subs don’t let people pimp their personal shit for monetary gain, no clue why it’s more socially acceptable if it’s Jennifer Lawrence over some dude who makes cool pottery.
Actually worthwhile AmAs have been a casualty on Reddit for a while and I don’t blame the mods one bit.
That era ended when they fired Victoria.
your name is all emojis?
Go into your settings and you can make your Display Name be anything. For example I changed mine in honour of you…
ETA: Wait - it didn’t work. My sorcery has failed!
Yeah you pretty much got it but with all things Lemmy right now you might have to try a couple of times to make it stick.
It’s nice having some modern features in a comment-style forum.
Neato.
I keep seeing a fella with that shrug text emote as a name. I like it.
I’ll be very curious to see the stats start rolling in regarding any decrease in Reddit’s views, etc. since July 1. I’m still using it, but only about half as much as I did with Apollo.
I doubt we will see any big dent in numbers so soon, if at all. The brutal honest truth is that most users of Reddit are casual lurkers who just want a content feed and do not care about anything else. This is why subreddits protested as they did, interrupting the content feed with blackouts and extremely niche rules.
What may actually happen is that a lot of the content creators leave, which will decrease the quality of the site in the long term and maybe push out the casual user when the content gets bad enough. This is not something easily quantifiable, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
But personally, I’m ok even if reddit isn’t toppled. Now that I’ve stopped using it, I have no stake in the matter anymore.
Im a casual reddit lurker. I left because the official reddit app is horrible to browse even casually
The fact that you used a 3rd party app and just commented on a thread means you are not as casual as the average Reddit consumer.
lol the official app came to be long after 3rd party apps existed. The official app itself was a 3rd party app that Reddit purchased (though nothing good remains)
If, you are correct that…
most users of Reddit are casual lurkers who just want a content feed and do not care about anything else.
And, a lot of the content creators and content moderators leave, decreasing the quality of the content on reddit.
Then, these lurkers will leave the platform.
I don’t see why these folks would stay on reddit if the content decreases in quality. Especially, if we are assuming these lurkers do nothing to contribute to the content they are consuming.
It’s interesting, you actually provided great evidence which counters your original claim that reddit will not be affected by all of this bad publicity.
The point of contention which is why I believe as above is that the standards of most people still on reddit are fairly low. Reddit has been going downhill for years, this much is known; it’s only now, with this latest screw up, that I, (assumedly) you, and many others have decided to jump ship. I, personally, willfully ignored much of the enshittification of reddit, content that I could use third party tools and apps to make up for it’s deficiencies; now that reddit is showing they don’t care about us and are tearing down those tools, I’m gone.
But for many others, they don’t care about any of the current goings on. Many do not even understand how the site actually works, confusing mods with admins as the same thing and not even getting that a sub could shut down (I was a mod, and saw many pieces of mod mail that amounted to “why can’t I see posts here help”). Their standards for how bad things can get until they’ll make a change in their browsing habits are surprisingly resilient.
Yeah. In the beginning I’m rooting for the death of reddit but now that I’ve weaned myself off of it I just don’t give a shit any more. They can rake in billions, or they can crumble tomorrow. I’m elsewhere and I feel fine.
I don’t really care if Reddit dies as long as we keep getting good content here on the fediverse. So far I have been totally surprised exactly how good this place has been as far as activity goes. I will miss the niche communities on Reddit so if we can siphon a bit more growth off this is excellent but the various Lemmy servers have enough activity to replace Reddit for general content for me
I’m only using Reddit on Safari now that Apollo is gone and, even then, my use has been minimal since the blackout last month.
It will be slow, but Reddit’s death will be fine for me. I will definitely miss the smaller, niche communities, but I think they’ll all find a way to carry on either through Lemmy, et al, or whatever rises from there.
Reddit’s decisions, from investing in NFTs to letting go of Victoria way back when, have all been contributing to the inevitable, but when the content providers leave - and they are - the site will just collapse. My schadenfreude lies in Reddit never even realizing its IPO after all this drama.
Would love to see a lemmy community step in with a mod team willing to pick up these duties. Would be a huge boon for migrations.
