Fediverse

Why would famous people want to do an AMA here, on Lemmy, of all places?

Anyways, "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st.

It would be fitting to have a John Oliver AMA to kick things off

This is a great idea, but who would organize and run the AMA?

This is far too premature.

AMA is a high amount of trust in the moderation team. You build trust by having assurances that the AMA hosts have done their research and prove that the person is who they say they are.

Where we need to start is: who around here is even capable of hosting AMAs? Are they willing to host AMAs to build a community/subreddit's trust? Etc. etc.

Fediverse developers may be a good start

Yes. For the love of god, yes. Even if it's for simple questions like "how do fediverse accounts work", it would be a major help for anyone switching over from reddit to lemmy or from Twitter to mastodon.

It's a good idea.

Do we have a more active AMA community? All I can find is this:

https://lemmy.world/c/ama

Of course, for people like mods and developers, you could quite easily reach out directly. The Apollo dev is on Mastodon, the Reddit mods probably responds to reddit DMs.

As for actual celebrities, you'd have to get their attention somehow. They have publicists whose job it is is to filter out the people who want to talk to them.

Something closer to the original community on Reddit would work very well...

It didn't just start out as "celebrities interacting with the peasants" as another commenter pointed out. It was really people (or sometimes jackasses pretending to be real people) answering questions about their life and experiences.

As a mid term objective I see it. There's still a lot to do before we could have a big AMA.

I’d prefer IamA’s, instead of AMA’s. Stuff like I am a Ukrainian freedom fighter, I am lawyer that represented a serial killer, I am terminally ill. I wanna know what the people are doing, not what the celebs are doing.

Personally I’m not very interesting, but I know some of yous are. Let’s all chat!

Maybe we can get @[email protected], @[email protected] , or @[email protected] to do one?

Meh, there are enough places for the celebrities to interact with the peasants, why does it have to happen here too. Peasants together strong.

This is pretty brilliant. Only problem would be I guess people would want a large audience, but hey, gotta get the ball rolling somehow.

I think it would be best to hold off until the Lemmy developers push out an update which solves the issue of having separate communities for the same topic on multiple instances. For example, multi-community feeds or merging instances.

Some comprehensive FAQs would be useful.

Maybe we can get Woody Harrelson, he can talk about Rampart.

This needs to happen!