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.

67 points

Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.

Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy.

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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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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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3 points

I had completely forgotten about that. This whole thing has been a really slow burn.

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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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2 points

I hope we can get a secret Santa going on lemmy!

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10 points

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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7 points

They had some good shit with subject matter experts though.

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21 points

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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24 points

Remember when AMAs were from regular ass people with cool jobs or something? Instead of just advertising?

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16 points

Disco Inferno’s playing on full volume over there at Reddit

… hold on isn’t this post better suited to !reddit@lemmy.world ??

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11 points

I remember when Victoria was fired, the quality of all celebrity amas went down to shit and became glorified ads, such wasted potential

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6 points

Yeah, that was such a drag. AMAs with Victoria were outstanding.

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9 points

They really were, and her loss was immediately noticeable. While we say f-u/spez, we should never forget u/kn0thing and his fuckery with Victoria and the downward slide of Reddit.

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