• butterflyattack@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    AMA used to be a pretty big draw for lots of people who didn’t regularly use the site and often made international news, but they fucked that right up.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah. You could see they were coordinating with the agents of celebrities. The celebs found it more interesting than the generic interviews they did with other media outlets. Upvoting and downvoting meant the best questions bubbled up to the top, although sometimes they were things the celebs didn’t want to talk about. But, with a good PR person in the room they did fine with it.

      There’s a niche there, but it isn’t going to be a humongous one that will make Reddit a trillion dollar business.