• decadentrebel
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    512 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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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
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          122 years ago

          Public let me ask you anything PLAYA

          • @LocutusOfBeetleBorg
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            62 years ago

            Publicly Lemme Ask Your Earnest Radical Opinion Nobody Expected

        • @aciDC14
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          22 years ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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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.

      • @figaro
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        112 years ago

        Quick someone make it real

    • @ForgetReddit
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      332 years ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            42 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.

      • @gerbilOFdoom
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        32 years ago

        This triggers geometry memories with right triangles.

        Angle Side Angle

    • @FunkyDuck
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      62 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
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        182 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
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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
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          52 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
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            42 years ago

            Yep. She was the canary in the coal mine.