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[–] FunkyDuck 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Touching_Grass 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Ryumast3r 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brainfreeze 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. She was the canary in the coal mine.

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