He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?
He absolutely would be a great pick. And I suspect he would be interested. What I wonder is: how much would it grow Lemmy and the Fediverse? Impossible to tell, but even if it’s only a small gain, I think it would be worth trying.
I think it would be a definite boost to the fediverse, because a major talking point I see in reddit discussions is that there is no viable alternative to reddit, so people are going to stay no matter what. This event would put a big spotlight on lemmy, and if it goes well, will result in a lot of regular users from reddit.
Reddit has long been known for its userbase being capable of surprisingly big things. Getting John Oliver to AMA here might show that Lemmy is capable of the same thing.
Maybe some time later in July when that surge has passed.
I’d be more inclined to reach out to Louis Rossmann, especially since he’s said he won’t post on reddit anymore. Maybe we can even find a home on lemmy for his right to repair campaign.
He’s a good candidate too, but to me, John Oliver has come to be associated with Reddit revolts in the media, because he was flooding the front page for a while. Even major news outlets wrote about it. If he does an ama here, it would symbolically show that those people have moved on to Lemmy.
Why not both?
Him too is a good candidate for an AMA.
Let’s start small. Can we do a Christian Selig AMA first? I think that would be a decent flagship that might draw the attention of the press. That way we have something proven before we start getting in people who have PR teams…
One of the devs who is actually porting their app over, like !@ljdawson
Let’s not distract @ljdawson from his mission.
That’s actually a good idea
I’ve been here about a week or so and so far I think the absolutely perfect candidate would be Vermin Supreme.
oh dear goodness. Yes but no.
I mean, if we can’t get Obama, I guess.
i hope nobody’s trying to invite that war criminal onto the fediverse…
You’re not wrong but you undoubtably defend people a thousand times worse, lemmygrad user
Absolutely love the talk about not federating with Meta but meanwhile lemmygrad
I don’t defend any war criminals. You could have saved yourself looking like a clown by taking a quick look at my comment history: https://lemmygrad.ml/u/triplenadir/view/Comments/sort/New/page/1
@lemmygrad.ml
He would likely do it too, let’s call his agent.
Celebrity worship was how we got to modern corporate reddit in the first place. I’d like to keep it away for a while longer.
Go preorder tickets for “Barbie”.
I am all on board with the idea. If someone has connections to mods from r/IAmA please reach out to them for help and let’s make it happen (here on lemmy / kbin)
In the mean time comment and upvote this post to spread the word.
I think you should probably ask him first
Actually we should talk here first before asking him, because if he agrees but nobody wants to participate that would be a very bad look.
Other thought: I think in recent years, AMAs have been trending towards decentralization towards the individual subreddit level anyways, because neat people want to interact with groups that would be interested in what they are saying, otherwise they are going to get drowned out by the noise in something big like r/iama.
Which means that the only people who are going to do an AMA on a big, general subreddits are mostly people who have a lot of money and influence to sell things to the biggest audience, like to promote a major blockbuster, for example.
So, if we have a big Last Week Tonight fan community on Lemmy, yeah, let’s welcome John Oliver there, but he’s not going to come to help ex-redditors spite promote Lemmy, what’s in it for him?
Since decentralization is the way forward for the Fediverse, AMAs should be decentralized toward the community level anyways, and maybe with a dedicated community to aggregate them across the Fediverse, having a centralized instance solely for AMAs is what led reddit down its current path.
I mean, being a death nail on a corporation’s IPO for spite and content is on brand for him
Go get him cowboy
Make it happen, cap’n!
It’s worth a shot. If they decide to do something with it, you can guarantee it’ll be a fair, impartial, and brutal look at the facts. And that it’ll be fucking entertaining!
Okay, this brings up a question that’s been in the back of my mind. I’m all in on federated communities, but I’m wondering how that architecture supports a massive event. Are there any instances that could support a giant number of concurrent users constantly refreshing a page? How much of the server burden is on the insurance hosting the community, and how much is on the instance that a visiting user is logged into? I’m not sure how it works.
Not just the architecture, but also the possible logistics of such an event. Who’d contact John Oliver’s PR team, for example. What about the scheduling? Also, while I think people here are good-natured enough that it might not be necessary, who’d be making sure that the thread responses (the questions) don’t violate any community and instance rules?
I may be overthinking it, but such a huge event would involve a lot of coordination from many different people.
That’s a good point. I would think at least Lemmy.world would handle such a load.
Beehaw is also quite well funded atm. Iirc their balance is currently several times their server cost
We’ve got competence over here on sh.itjust.works, the guy running the instance apparently does something similar for his day job.
But these three are all terrible suggestions because of the situation of Beehaw defederating from the other two. If you pick one, some of the Lemmings (lol) on another instance won’t be able to interact.
I’ve never administrated a Lemmy instance, but I can’t shake the feeling that the traffic and activity that would generate would be a massive blow to the infrastructure we have right now. I can’t name anybody at the moment, but maybe we should start with someone a bit smaller?
Peter Dinklage?
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Is there a dedicated AMA community on Lemmy, Beehaw or Kbin?
/r/AMA good on reddit as it centralized a lot of those kinds of posts. Having an equivalent here on the threadiverse would be fantastic to enable these kinds of events.
Two have been set up on Kbin: (including links for both lemmy and kbin users until the kbin bugs get fixed)
!IAmA@kbin.social (kbin link)
!askmeanything@kbin.social (kbin link)
