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[–] Rockfury@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Damn how am I gonna learn about Rampart?

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Looks like a certain super talented Australian actress picked the right place to promote "Barbie".

Margot Elise Robbie, you're a genius.

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[–] carp969@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Lemmy needs to come up with their own term for an AMA.

[–] lester777@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] DietBajaBlast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That’s fucking perfect

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Public let me ask you anything PLAYA

Publicly Lemme Ask Your Earnest Radical Opinion Nobody Expected

[–] aciDC14@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t get it, what’s wrong with LAY?.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] figaro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Quick someone make it real

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That felt real good

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ding ding, we have a winner.

image

[–] lando55@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

AMAR - Ask Me About Rampart

[–] communistcapy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

"Q&A" has already been around for decades before reddit.

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[–] MagnumDovetails@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

AMAs died when Reddit fired Victoria, they haven’t been worth a shit in a while.

[–] sorenant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Victoria leaving was tragic but can we talk about Rampart?

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[–] humanreader@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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?

[–] ruleman@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not just any publication, it's owned by Reddit's largest shareholder. They must be worried.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit created a way to drive more people to its native apps (where Reddit shows ads and generates revenue) as of July 1. But we can't overlook that Reddit was built on people's willingness to provide free content and labor, and the API battle has driven away some of the most popular content and veteran volunteer mods.

Reddit won the battle for API fees, but the war for desirable content—something no social media platform can ever be complacent about—is at risk. And that's not the type of problem that ousted mods and forcibly reopened subreddits can fix.

Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.

This is too good.

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

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[–] urbanzero@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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