Margot Robbie

I met Quinton Tarantino. Even did a movie with him. Really likes giving pedicures.

But now I just see him out of the corner of my eyes everywhere I go now. It’s weird.

What kind of Internet weirdo would want to impersonate me anyways?

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!

It’s the idea of a New Sincerity, or post-postmodernism.

Yeah, the world is turning to shit, and nothing matters. So what? What are you doing to make it less shit?

It’s the idea that you should be trying to save everyone with the understanding that a small portion are just too far gone to be saved, and you should focus on the ones that you can, because even if you just save one person, that’s still a net positive.

Hey, whatever you do is your business, I’m just here to promote “Barbie”.

I repeat this a lot, but I think the most important thing to do is to stay sincere and not be a defeatist. No arguing just to win, but no hugbox mentality either.

I have no doubt at all that the reddit admins and powermods were algorithmically pushing flame bait and hatred (especially to the political subs) to drive traffic to the site, so now that we’ve have a place where that isn’t possible (yet, at least), I’m interested to see if that’s just the nature of political discussion on the Internet.

Many of them are not staying respectful though.

They have a fresh start on a new place, and they just choose to be miserable and brought the reddit over here.

Yeah, I see the shitty part of reddit is moving here now, doing internet arguments again.

Yeah, but why would he want to jump straight into the mess instead of watching from the sidelines and write jokes about it?

Can you imagine the questions that’s going to be asked on Lemmy if he actually does do an AMA?

• “Uh, what do you think about reddit closing its API access so there’s no third party apps any more”
• “How do you feel that reddit userbase is spamming with your pictures instead posting normal content?”
• “Horse sized duck or duck sized horse?”
• “Upboat to fuck spez am I right?”
• “More sexy pictures pls.”

See?

Other thought: I think in recent years, AMAs have been trending towards decentralization towards the individual subreddit level anyways, because neat people want to interact with groups that would be interested in what they are saying, otherwise they are going to get drowned out by the noise in something big like r/iama.

Which means that the only people who are going to do an AMA on a big, general subreddits are mostly people who have a lot of money and influence to sell things to the biggest audience, like to promote a major blockbuster, for example.

So, if we have a big Last Week Tonight fan community on Lemmy, yeah, let’s welcome John Oliver there, but he’s not going to come to help ex-redditors spite promote Lemmy, what’s in it for him?

Since decentralization is the way forward for the Fediverse, AMAs should be decentralized toward the community level anyways, and maybe with a dedicated community to aggregate them across the Fediverse, having a centralized instance solely for AMAs is what led reddit down its current path.

Celebrity worship was how we got to modern corporate reddit in the first place. I’d like to keep it away for a while longer.

Go preorder tickets for “Barbie”.

Because everything is small and manageable for mods right now, and everyone is talking to everyone else.

Lemmy also has the advantage that the default “hot” sort favors recency instead of upvotes so that you can get into a thread pretty late and still have your comments be seen.

Sort by new is still pretty good right now.