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The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so(www.theverge.com)

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The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.

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IvanTheTerribleWaiter@kbin.social
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TIL Bill Gates was a moderator of /r/IAMA

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ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social
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Which instance will host them now?

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density@kbin.social
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celeb AMAs are a consequence of huge user base… so it’ll be a while before we need to sort out which instance is to host

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Kinglink@lemmy.world
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I’ll be honest, once Victoria left, AMAs weren’t the same…

Seeing the people who barely held it together walk off… I mean shit

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impossiblepackage@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Remember when AMAs were from regular ass people with cool jobs or something? Instead of just advertising?

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Sam@lemmy.ca
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Honestly this is one of those things I’d be fine leaving on reddit. Celebrity worship is gross, and it was never very interesting. 5-6 simple questions answered, promotion of their new book/movie/show, and peace out.

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Khazram@lemmy.world
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I still fondly remember the days of Victoria helping with facilitating the AMAs. She had a great rapport with all the celebrities and really helped with getting good answers to questions from the community.

I consider her termination to be the moment Reddit started going down the route of putting potential profits above the needs of the community.

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MinusPi (she/they)@pawb.social
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I had completely forgotten about that. This whole thing has been a really slow burn.

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Khazram@lemmy.world
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And of course, as par for Reddit, it was one of the founders and then-chairman Alexis Ohanian behind it all and screwing the users. I’d like to think Aaron Swartz would be pissed and disappointed but unfortunately we’ll never know.

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BillyZane@lemmy.world
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I hope we can get a secret Santa going on lemmy!

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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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They had some good shit with subject matter experts though.

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Arodg25@lemmy.ca
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Not me, bring it over here, I don’t read many but when I do I’d prefer it to be here now

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PenguinJuice@kbin.social
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Removed by mod
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Yewb@kbin.social
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Victoria was awesome

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aeternum@kbin.social
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reddit making shit decisions? that’s unpossible!

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