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He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?

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[–] Kichae@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The John Oliver stuff is happening on Reddit, though. That's where the attention is, that's where his face is being plastered everywhere. It really has nothing to do with anything here.

It's all people who don't want to bebherr, sending the message that they don't want over there to change.

Plus he's probably heard of Reddit, but not Lemmy, kbin, or the Fediverse. And he has no dog in

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[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is already an AMA community the first step would be to help that community grow in order to get enough participants to make it a good experience for everyone.

[–] SuperBobby@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Let's do it.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

John Oliver hosts a political talkshow. that's fine if you're showing off a specific Lemmy instance or community, but if your goal is to show off Lemmy as a platform, doing so with that topic is a recipe for disaster.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Especially since Lemmy's roots are also political, and controversially so

[–] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We don't even have to bring up reddit other than asking how he felt about his pictures. We can just do a regular ama about himself. The point is not getting him to talk bad about reddit, but to show the world that lemmy is a viable alternative to reddit

[–] aphonefriend@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. If he'd do it, it's worth trying.

[–] liaizon@social.wake.st 3 points 1 year ago

@nieceandtows I honestly think this would be doable and maybe worth perusing. I wonder who has the most contacts with Hollywood to make something like this happen

[–] mattclassic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, that is a great idea. Actually, I wonder if we can find someone here who has some kind of connection

[–] Pplsuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yessssssss!!!

[–] clacke@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago

@nieceandtows That would be beyond awesome.

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