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?
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?
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.
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.
@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...
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.
Two mags already exist here:
/m/IAmA
/m/askmeanything
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.