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The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.

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[–] sam@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly this is one of those things I'd be fine leaving on reddit. Celebrity worship is gross, and it was never very interesting. 5-6 simple questions answered, promotion of their new book/movie/show, and peace out.

[–] Khazram@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still fondly remember the days of Victoria helping with facilitating the AMAs. She had a great rapport with all the celebrities and really helped with getting good answers to questions from the community.

I consider her termination to be the moment Reddit started going down the route of putting potential profits above the needs of the community.

[–] MinusPi@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had completely forgotten about that. This whole thing has been a really slow burn.

[–] Khazram@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And of course, as par for Reddit, it was one of the founders and then-chairman Alexis Ohanian behind it all and screwing the users. I’d like to think Aaron Swartz would be pissed and disappointed but unfortunately we’ll never know.

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

I hope we can get a secret Santa going on lemmy!

[–] Arodg25@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Not me, bring it over here, I don't read many but when I do I'd prefer it to be here now

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

They had some good shit with subject matter experts though.