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        Lol I remember someone in that thread asking Woody if he remembered taking a high school girl to her prom and knocking her up. And the social media manager faking Woody’s involvement just answering “can we stick to the movie?”

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          Yeah the entire AMA was a dumpster fire, but that was when things really devolved. It quickly got upvoted to the top, and it refused to die. Every single comment he made was quickly bombed with “why haven’t you answered that prom question yet” responses.

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        I just had a good laugh at myself because rampart is so non-existent in my mind, that I had to Google what the hell you were talking about.

        So Woody Harrelson is forever famous for the worst AMA ever because he aggressively plugged a movie that must’ve been so bad and irrelevant that I have no idea what people are talking about when they reference it today.

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        In the statement from the AMA mods, they stated that if Reddit wanted to continue providing that sort of celebrity outreach that they had been doing for free, they should hire a liaison for that.

        Before the mods took that responsibility on for themselves, Victoria (/u/chooter on Reddit) used to be that person.

        Victoria was able to pull in some big names for AMAs, and she was good at identifying good/interesting questions and helping with submitting responses. Reddit unceremoniously fired her one day and the quality of celebrity AMAs dropped significantly after that.

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          do we have any idea what they fired her for? I keep seeing people that are mad about it, but I don’t feel like I have enough information to know if it was really unjustified

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          It’s so crazy how they fired her. Reddit’s leadership really loves to shoot themselves in the foot. I applaud the mods scaling back their AMA mod duties. No point in doing so much extra work for a community that reddit continually shows it doesn’t care about and actively harms through their bad decisions.

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    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.

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      Agreed, all it is now is a marketing stunt. Usually with responses built by some lawyer or publicist. But anyway, 1 horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses?

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        It’s definitely 1 horse sized duck. I mean 100 duck sized horses would swarm you in seconds! I don’t get why everyone thinks they can just stomp 100 of anything!! They would circle you and it would be over!

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      Yep, that’s why it was interesting. Celebs are mostly boring and already have access to platforms if they want to talk to people.

      I want to hear from people who I’d normally never get to listen to and who want to share details of their interests.

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        celebs are mostly boring and already have access to platforms if they want to talk to people.

        Lucky for me, I, Margot Robbie, can say things on Lemonworld that I would never say in public. So that’s a plus.

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        Podcasts, too. Like, Jeremy Irons is such a great actor, but it’s boring hearing him talk about his castle and riding horses. Hearing 2 comedians talk is fun, though.

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

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      Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get. How can you be so disregarded, have your opinion so thoroughly dismissed, and then just keep creating content and driving traffic to the company? Fuck capitalism, but fuck reddit in this particular instance.

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        Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get.

        Because they don’t care. Why do you think people are still sticking with Facebook and TikTok?

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          Because they don’t care.

          Not entirely true.

          Some of us are still occasionally browsing parts of reddit because not every niche community has fully made the transition yet and said niche communities are the ONLY places to get relevant, timely information for those niches.

          I know for me there are some decade+ old MMO communities that haven’t swapped over yet. Since many of the old wikis got shut down years ago when fandom, etc, took over everything, for some games the only choices are youtube and reddit. Personally, I hate youtube’s monetization forcing tiny bits of information to be strung out into 15-20+ minute videos more than I hate what the reddit team is doing, and I hate what’s happened to reddit a LOT.

          The move is going to be an ongoing process for a while.

          Labeling everyone with broad brush strokes misses some of the nuance of the situation, but I look forward to the day I no longer have to visit Reddit for the information I’m looking for.

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            Personally, I hate youtube’s monetization forcing tiny bits of information to be strung out into 15-20+ minute videos

            It’s not perfect, but SponsorBlock helps a bit with that, it can automatically skips reminders and such. And the new YouTube chapter feature is also actually good for finding the info you want in a video, but that depends on the video creator.

            I really miss the old wikis, Fandom is just filled with irrelevant bullshit like recommending me I visit another wiki that has nothing to do with the one I’m using at the moment.

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              The problem isn’t the ads themselves.

              The problem is that YouTube’s monetization setup encourages content creators to stretch, expand, tease out and otherwise bloat their content in order to achieve returns. It turns 20 seconds of hard data into 18 minutes of sawdust that you have to either sit through or sift through in order to get what amounts to three sentences worth of typed out information.

              Sometimes content creators are kind and they label things and “separate” them into time indexed segments, but even then, I read much faster than they talk and every single one of them I’ve run into still rambles around in loops of opinion, sentiment, and anecdote while doing so.

              It’s an absolutely awful last resort for getting simple answers to direct questions and it’s so very, very much worse than even WALLS of aimless text would be, because at least text can be ctrl-f’d.

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                I agree with everything you said, but if you have to get the info from a video at least make it as painless as possible.

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        I didn’t even care about the original API issue that much but when spez started talking shit and heavy handing mods it left such a bad taste that I’m here on Lemmy now.

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        I understand users, they just want the forum and don’t care about the politics.

        Mods on the other hand… it’s a busy job that you are already doing for free. If the platform is turning against you what incentive is there to work for them?

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      There are a couple small subreddits I’m part of that are lifelines, close communities for people who need a space to share information & be themselves. I’ve checked in on them once during the past month & they’re still holding together. The mods are staying because those small groups of users need them & don’t have another place to go. I expect once the Fediverse spawns more highly specialized niche communities, they’ll drift over.

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        This makes absolutely no sense. The smaller the community is, the easier it is to migrate. They could just go to literally any other service.

        The community is the people, not the platform.

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

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      Reddit created a way to drive more people to its native apps (where Reddit shows ads and generates revenue) as of July 1. But we can’t overlook that Reddit was built on people’s willingness to provide free content and labor, and the API battle has driven away some of the most popular content and veteran volunteer mods.

      Reddit won the battle for API fees, but the war for desirable content—something no social media platform can ever be complacent about—is at risk. And that’s not the type of problem that ousted mods and forcibly reopened subreddits can fix.

      Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.

      This is too good.

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      I’ll be damned. I had no idea Conde Nast owned it. That said I can see a more recent injection of $150M by Tencent too.

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

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

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      It was a flawed system, but it really benefited Reddit. Volunteer mods did it because they were supposed to be the leaders of their communities and reddit was supposed to just be a platform for hosting them. By attacking that system they removed the main incentive for volunteer mods to exist.

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        Yeah it really went from “This is your community. You created it and can run it how you want. Reddit is just a collection of loosely-connected, privately-run forums” to “This is my subreddit and I expect you to work for free making it nice for me, even though you created it.”

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      I wonder if he thinks about it at all or if he’s got a gang of yes men telling him it’s all good.

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    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.

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    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.

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      That was the event that changed me from “sure, I’ll wait out a two day protest” to “wow, I should stop using this website.”

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      They’re expecting lawsuits to fly, and don’t want to touch it with a 10-foot pole lest they get dragged in.

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

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    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.

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      For me, it wasn’t so much the loss of third party apps as it was the way the admins handled it. I had never realized how little they actually valued their community. Instead, everything was about the money. Too bad they failed to see that users and the content they created was the reason Reddit was worth anything in the first place.

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        There were absolutely paths forward that would have worked to allow 3rd party apps without price gouging them. The whole thing was in bad faith and they never wanted to allow 3rd party apps at all, they just didn’t want to announce they were kicking them off the platform. It wasn’t just about the money, it was about control. Control over the users by forcing them to use their app where they could push unwanted content on you and degrade your experience to maximize profits. The 3rd party apps made money by providing a better user experience which was directly counter to their aims to maximize profits.

        3rd party apps did not make a huge percentage of the user base, so why were they so afraid of them? I think the answer is that they are planning on making the user experience on the main app much worse and they know users would be looking for alternatives after, so they went out to kill the alternatives, or charge them an insane amount.

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          Your theory at the end there sounds right on the money. I never considered that before but I think that is the most plausible.

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      Just add “-reddit.com” to the ed of your query and the search engine will omit results from that site.

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      That was my line of thinking too, more or less. After RiF, I was like "I guess RedReader is still up, since they got an exemption! I’ll just wait out till July 1 then switch to that.

      But the day after the protest, I just decided to drop the platform altogether. It felt spineless calling out reddit on their bullshit, just to fall in line and still give traffic to their site.

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

    Margot Elise Robbie, you’re a genius.