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AbaixoDeCao to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war

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AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war

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AbaixoDeCao to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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"Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably."
  • decadentrebel
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    51•2 years ago

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

    • @lester777@lemmy.world
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      213•2 years ago

      Lemmy Ask You

      • @DietBajaBlast@lemmy.world
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        23•2 years ago

        That’s fucking perfect

      • @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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        2 years ago

        Or from the reverse, Lemmy Answer You. Are we okay with the inevitable shortened version being LAY? Perhaps we should keep the “anything” on the end so it becomes LAYA. Much better SEO.

        • @zombuey@lemmy.world
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          12•2 years ago

          Public let me ask you anything PLAYA

          • @LocutusOfBeetleBorg@lemmy.world
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            6•2 years ago

            Publicly Lemme Ask Your Earnest Radical Opinion Nobody Expected

        • @aciDC14@lemmy.world
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          2•2 years ago

          I don’t get it, what’s wrong with LAY?.

          • @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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            It’s already a word, which is bound to create confusion and be harder to search for.

            LAYA is also a homophone for a certain space princess, but the spelling is unique.

      • @gamer@lemm.ee
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        13•2 years ago

        You won.

      • @figaro@lemmy.world
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        11•2 years ago

        Quick someone make it real

      • Cool Beance
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        8•2 years ago

        That felt real good

      • @SwallowsDick@lemmy.world
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        6•2 years ago

        Nice

      • @Rockfury@lemmy.world
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        1•2 years ago

        Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

    • Margot Robbie
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      68•2 years ago

      Ask someone something.

      • decadentrebel
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        21•2 years ago

        Ding ding, we have a winner.

        image

        • Don_Suey
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          3•2 years ago

          Love it

      • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
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        2•2 years ago

        (⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

    • @ForgetReddit@lemmy.world
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      33•2 years ago

      Eh Reddit doesn’t own that term, let’s just take it

      • @clementineholic@lemm.ee
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        4•2 years ago

        I agree. Reddit didn’t trademark AMA so that means we can use it too.

        • @rat@ag.batlord.org
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          They did trademark it: 1, 2, 3.

          But fortunately the relevant one seems to have expired.

          • @clementineholic@lemm.ee
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            4•2 years ago

            Oh, okay I had no idea. Crazy how they bothered to trademark it but not do anything to support the mods of the AMA community, rather even actively harming them by firing the only person at Reddit that was helping them out, Victoria Taylor.

    • @twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world
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      21•2 years ago

      LAMA

    • @lando55@vlemmy.net
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      15•2 years ago

      AMAR - Ask Me About Rampart

    • communistcapy
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      9•2 years ago

      “Q&A” has already been around for decades before reddit.

    • @Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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      9•2 years ago

      ASA - ask someone anything

      • @GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de
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        6•2 years ago

        AKIRA: Ask Knowledgeable Individuals - Receive Answers

      • @gerbilOFdoom@lemmy.world
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        3•2 years ago

        This triggers geometry memories with right triangles.

        Angle Side Angle

    • @FunkyDuck@lemmy.world
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      6•2 years ago

      I don’t think Lemmy is big enough for more high profile people to come here. The main reason celebrities do AMAs are for publicity for whatever they’re promoting. Lemmy has way less total users than /r/iama has.

      • @jtablerd@lemmy.world
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        18•2 years ago

        It wasn’t originally any celebrities or high profile people at all, it was literally like, “I’m a postal worker who’s also an amputee, AMA” and it was great. Rampart ruined the format, IMO.

      • @Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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        I thought about this the other day.

        I couldn’t care about high profile AMA

        Seriously. A few were cool. But most were pretty much just marketing teams with celebrities who couldn’t care less about the 2011 hit crime drama Rampart starring Woody Harrelson

        I love the smaller ones. And I think that made early reddit AMA great. Also whoever that girl was that helped do the AMAs was great. Who remembers that era. She was a mini celebrity and then they fired her.

        Lemmy could definitely make headway by going back to the basics and doing AMA with random people with cool or niche expertise

        • @Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
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          5•2 years ago

          Her name was Victoria and she was responsible for making AMAs as big as they ever were. When she left is when they really went downhill.

          • @brainfreeze@lemmy.world
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            4•2 years ago

            Yep. She was the canary in the coal mine.

      • @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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        8•2 years ago

        It doesn’t have to start with A-listers.

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