Hey peeps, after hitting the frontpage of reddit, we got a good amount of new users on our instance, to the point where our admin team was struggling to keep up with the application forms.

More users means more issues and therefore more reports, so we are looking to onboard one more admin to the instance. If you are interested, these are the requirements:

Requirements

  • You must be an anarchist, and enthusiastically endorse the instance policies and our anarchist code of conduct. For example this means we also expect you to also be pro-piracy and not hostile to GenAI.
  • You must have been on this instance for at least 3 months, to ensure you understand our culture. Hopefully you’ve been a lemmy poster as well as we expect our admins to dogfood our service. If you were already a comm admin, even better!
  • At this point we are prioritizing women and/or PoC to reinforce our team’s diverse perspectives. So please apply if you are even if you don’t feel as confident.
  • At this point we are prioritizing timezones and countries outside of Europe and the USA to help us get better coverage and better perspectives.
  • You must be willing to use matrix as this is where we organize our instance and our real-time admin chat.
  • You must be willing to keep an eye on reports and applications throughout the day.

What is expected of you

  • We have a fairly chill community around this place, so it’s not too demanding. The time requirements are not too large and we will keep expanding the team to ensure the load per individual admin remains low. So long as using this instance is your primary social media, the “workload”, such as it is, shouldn’t even be noticable.
  • Initiative is encouraged. It’s cool enough for people to just want to help us keep this place tidy, but if you have ideas, you will be free to put them into action directly without asking permission all the time, so long as we can rollback easily.
  • You should have a anarchist democratic mindframe. We don’t need a voting decision on everything (just do direct action), but you should be willing to be judged on your decisions and roll them back if they are unpopular.
  • Remember that while we’re anarchist-flavored, we’re not just for anarchists. So we understand that many of our users might be liberals or otherwise misguided. On top of that, we make a point of welcoming neurodivergent people who don’t always understand social norms and might phrase things in a way that looks really bad when interpreted uncharitably. As such, we want to help people match our values, without turning a misunderstanding into a hostile experience through heavy-handed actions. So a softer hand and charitability is encouraged, while at the same time being firmly against clearly reactionary takes.

Applying

  • You can leave your comments here, which can allow other members of this comm to vouch for you.
  • Please mention your “credentials” and why you think you would make a good member of the team.
  • If you don’t feel comfortable with sharing info, you can reach out to me (or another admin you feel more comfortable with) through PMs or matrix.

Spectating

If you’re just watching this governance thread, feel free to upvote applications you feel are worthy, and/or comment on people you want to vouch for. If you’re a supporter, remember you can also vouch for people directly through a threativore PM.

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    29 days ago

    Hi all! I’d like to apply if I may, but with a caveat: I have near-zero experience relevant to adminning. I’ve been co-admin for a small Discord group for a game I play for a while, and I was op in some IRC rooms 💯 years ago, but that’s about it 😅

    Requirements

    You must be an anarchist, and enthusiastically endorse the instance policies and our anarchist code of conduct. For example this means we also expect you to also be pro-piracy and not hostile to GenAI.

    While I’m not one for political labels in particular, I read up on this aspect when I applied to join and there is nothing in CoC that I’m not in support of. I’m pro-piracy to a bit of an extreme 🏴‍☠️ , and have no issue with GenAI.

    You must have been on this instance for at least 3 months, to ensure you understand our culture. Hopefully you’ve been a lemmy poster as well as we expect our admins to dogfood our service. If you were already a comm admin, even better!

    I’m not a terribly active commenter and you definitely won’t catch me posting often, but I’m a pretty regular reader of top-6h-all. That said this is my primary social media platform 🧓 My cake day is 3 Oct 2023.

    At this point we are prioritizing women and/or PoC to reinforce our team’s diverse perspectives. So please apply if you are even if you don’t feel as confident.

    I am a white male, but am also LGBT and formally diagnosed ADHD 🤪

    At this point we are prioritizing timezones and countries outside of Europe and the USA to help us get better coverage and better perspectives.

    I live in Sydney, Australia 🙃 Currently at GMT+11, sorry peeps you’re never gonna catch up 🦕

    You must be willing to use matrix as this is where we organize our instance and our real-time admin chat.

    I’m already a member (sorry about that everyone) 😵‍💫

    You must be willing to keep an eye on reports and applications throughout the day.

    No worries there ✅

    Credentials

    I’m a generalist Sysadmin/DevOps/Infrastructure/whatever-we’re-calling-it-today Engineer with 15 years industry experience 🤓 I’m currently unemployed (and have been for a year or so now) 🍑 but can share my LinkedIn/resume and discuss my work history etc. If I can, I would also like to contribute to the instance, and to Lemmy at large from an infra/automation perspective, but it’s difficult to do without visibility into the challenges of running a production instance. I have spent a lot of time in stacks similar to Lemmy’s and have been self-hosting (remote) for a decade.

    I’ll be around (except during an 8-hour period of your day, starting about 6 hours from posting time 😅), hit me up whenever/wherever with whatever 👍

    Thanks admins! 🤝