nevernevermore,

Let's start small. Can we do a Christian Selig AMA first? I think that would be a decent flagship that might draw the attention of the press. That way we have something proven before we start getting in people who have PR teams...

nieceandtows,

That's actually a good idea

TurnItOff_OnAgain,

One of the devs who is actually porting their app over, like !@ljdawson

kiwifoxtrot,
@kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world avatar

Let's not distract @ljdawson from his mission.

relative_iterator,
@relative_iterator@kbin.social avatar

Go get him cowboy

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Make it happen, cap'n!

asjmcguire,
@asjmcguire@kbin.social avatar

I think it would be awesome, but - my understanding is that AMA events tend to require quite a bit of moderation. Do we have good enough moderation on either platform yet - to be able to cope with an event like this?

vis4valentine,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

As a John Oliver fan, this would be amazing.

AmidFuror,

I mean, if we can't get Obama, I guess.

triplenadir,
@triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml avatar

i hope nobody's trying to invite that war criminal onto the fediverse..

minimar,

You're not wrong but you undoubtably defend people a thousand times worse, lemmygrad user

triplenadir,
@triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I don't defend any war criminals. You could have saved yourself looking like a clown by taking a quick look at my comment history: https://lemmygrad.ml/u/triplenadir/view/Comments/sort/New/page/1

jonuno,
@jonuno@lemmy.ml avatar

Absolutely love the talk about not federating with Meta but meanwhile lemmygrad

JWBananas,
@JWBananas@kbin.social avatar

@lemmygrad.ml

rm_dash_r_star,
@rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee avatar

If he'd do it, would be fun too.

aphonefriend,
@aphonefriend@lemmy.ml avatar

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

Pplsuck,

Yessssssss!!!

mattclassic,

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

thebestaquaman,

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.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Okay, this brings up a question that's been in the back of my mind. I'm all in on federated communities, but I'm wondering how that architecture supports a massive event. Are there any instances that could support a giant number of concurrent users constantly refreshing a page? How much of the server burden is on the insurance hosting the community, and how much is on the instance that a visiting user is logged into? I'm not sure how it works.

nieceandtows,

That’s a good point. I would think at least Lemmy.world would handle such a load.

SubArcticTundra,
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml avatar

Beehaw is also quite well funded atm. Iirc their balance is currently several times their server cost

AlligatorBlizzard,

We've got competence over here on sh.itjust.works, the guy running the instance apparently does something similar for his day job.

But these three are all terrible suggestions because of the situation of Beehaw defederating from the other two. If you pick one, some of the Lemmings (lol) on another instance won't be able to interact.

swab148,

Beehaw has defederated, though, so no one would be able to see that.

megane_kun,
@megane_kun@lemmy.world avatar

Not just the architecture, but also the possible logistics of such an event. Who'd contact John Oliver's PR team, for example. What about the scheduling? Also, while I think people here are good-natured enough that it might not be necessary, who'd be making sure that the thread responses (the questions) don't violate any community and instance rules?

I may be overthinking it, but such a huge event would involve a lot of coordination from many different people.

bstix,

It would be great if Victoria from Reddit would do it. Even Reddit can't do proper AMAs without her.

It's a pretty important task to verify that the AMAee is who they claim to be and to ensure that the technical things work.

There's no way that someone famous would bother making an account on Lemmy by themselves just for this unless they already understand what it is in the first place.

It basically requires a host to conduct it like a regular interview.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

The current federation is not built to support a massive number of users all on the same page.

I am hoping for a solution that involves major servers working together to direct a stream of donations into a group project, a super server designed to meet the need during heavy load events.

It'd probably have to be heavily moderated with minimal local activity. The point would be that when major news dropped, the users of different instances would be able to come to a central forum (the superserver) to discuss with the world, and also to any local or subscribed forums to discuss with their people.

Benefitting all of the admins who no longer have to worry about their server crashing, and all the users who can either avoid the superserver or participate in the larger discussion without any impact to their local Lemmy experience.

JCreazy,

I think you should probably ask him first

nieceandtows,

Actually we should talk here first before asking him, because if he agrees but nobody wants to participate that would be a very bad look.

Wander,
@Wander@yiffit.net avatar

I'd be more inclined to reach out to Louis Rossmann, especially since he's said he won't post on reddit anymore. Maybe we can even find a home on lemmy for his right to repair campaign.

dragnucs,

Him too is a good candidate for an AMA.

nieceandtows,

He’s a good candidate too, but to me, John Oliver has come to be associated with Reddit revolts in the media, because he was flooding the front page for a while. Even major news outlets wrote about it. If he does an ama here, it would symbolically show that those people have moved on to Lemmy.

randombit,

Why not both?

champion,

I am all on board with the idea. If someone has connections to mods from r/IAmA please reach out to them for help and let's make it happen (here on lemmy / kbin)

In the mean time comment and upvote this post to spread the word.

DeltaTangoLima,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

It's worth a shot. If they decide to do something with it, you can guarantee it'll be a fair, impartial, and brutal look at the facts. And that it'll be fucking entertaining!

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