I’m seeing a lot of chat about the migration of “reddit brand” concepts like AMA and IAmA. We should probably come up with alternatives? Who’s got some suggestions?

#AskKbin

  • Sylveon-Z@kbin.social
    4·
    3 years ago

    I’ve seen AMA threads on 4chan, I don’t think it’s something reddit-exclusive anymore. It’s just a simple acronym for “Ask Me Anything” for online interviews.

  • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 years ago

    I’d rather say that I don’t think Reddit gets any ownership of concepts that community members thought up and popularized. Most of us are still those same community members, I have no interest in granting Reddit ownership of our culture.

    • nevernevermore@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      @socialjusticewizard Sure, i see your point! My fear is that if someone outside of the fediverse sees a headline “X to host AMA on Kbin” that might still lead them to Reddit, because they’ve never heard of Kbin…

    • fubo
      1·
      3 years ago

      Under the Reddit terms of service, they explicitly do not own user contributions; rather, they merely have a license to continue to publish and reuse them (e.g. using user-contributed cute cat photos in ads). They would have no standing under law to prevent anyone else from using a user-contributed term or concept like AMA.

  • average650
    1·
    3 years ago

    While reddit popularized it, I don’t think that’s reddit thing. Reddit has subreddits, snoo, and things like that, but AMA? that’s generic in my book.