AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war

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

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

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. Researchers in remote islands, members of ethnicities or cultures that rarely get media attention, cool or unconventional jobs and how they got there. People and their stories.

Tldr: iama mods are no longer seeking out celebrities or doing any high value organizing like that. They will do only basic modding.

Why would they want to do something for free for a company that shows them no appreciation? This is the right move.

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.

Actually worthwhile AmAs have been a casualty on Reddit for a while and I don't blame the mods one bit.

Hey this is X celebrity, btw check my latest project, coming out tomorrow. Amas quickly became an easy promotional platform.

I bet spez is really regretting that "landed gentry" comment now. IAmA is one of reddit's most well-known communities.

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 haven't seen a good AMA on that sub for over 5 years already. This, to me, is like hearing that someone shot my already dead dog. Upsetting, but I had already moved on.

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 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.

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

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

Margot Elise Robbie, you're a genius.

It's amazing to me how sanitized the reddit front page is. All this nonsense going on right now (which Reddit The Company, and Steve Huffman in particular is responsible for) is incredibly important to any potential future of Reddit The Website, up to and including the possibility of Reddit (the Website, the Company, and the Userbase) becoming irrelevant.

But go browse reddit, and you have to look for it. Right now, the first arguably "anti-spez" submission is from r/shitposting, halfway down page two.

And that's it. There's nothing else. If you wanna talk about the current events of the website you're on, on that website, apparently go fuck yourself.

Damn how am I gonna learn about Rampart?

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.

Some lemmy instance admin should do an IAMA there.

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.

Big companies representatives 😉 doing AMAs telling the truth about the horrible things their companies are doing would be interesting to say the least.

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.

Let me guess -- it went from "Ask me anything" to "Stroke me anything".

JAI - just ask idiot.

Damn