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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Damn, it genuinely makes me sad to know that you’ve internalised this ableist and classist toxicity from society (this isn’t a you problem, it happens to all of us). Being dependant on the state because it and the capitalism it serves have deliberately left you with no other choice absolutely does not preclude you from taking up a position of resistance against it!
If anything the opposite is true, how the state treats you (wherever in the world you are, I’m sure it’s not an easy task to get benefits, and when you do they are at best just enough to live on, and at worst keep you in constant poverty. Here in the UK the system is deliberately designed to kill as many disabled people before they give us the pittance we are entitled to to barely live off of) should radicalise you even further, and gives you an even bigger stake in the game - those of us most oppressed and excluded by capitalism have the most to gain by abolishing it.
It’s late here and I’m just vaping my bedtime weed, so I can’t think off the top of my head of material to point you towards (E: though I will come back if I can think of any), but please, do try and unlearn these toxic, and incorrect notions that you have been socialised to believe and internalised, they exist to harm you.
If you agree with the ideas of anarchism, there is nothing stopping you from calling yourself an anarchist. 🖤
E: meanwhile this reminded me of
Absolutely not. That being said I’m also not going to bite the hand that feeds me.
Being fed and housed is a blessing in this world. I’m glad I don’t have to worry about being eaten by a tiger while vultures circle me over head. I know it’s constant poverty. I know it’s not going to be upper middle class QoL ever. It’s better than being hopelessly broken under a bridge.
I was an anarchist, then libertarian, before I finally became an independent. I fundamentally support the ideas of public infrastructure as well and police, medical, and fire department services. I simply can’t get behind ‘anarchy’ this late in my life, especially when I will becoming more dependent on others/the state the older I get especially when I am too old and frail to work.
Anarchy won’t work pre-star-trek’s post scarcity society imho. It’s just an attractive flower for those who yearn the smell of something different than the status quo, but I suspect there will be recoil from the foul taste when it finally touches their lips.
I fundamentally don’t. I believe public infrastructure should be a thing, and for that to exist, mutually agreed upon rules need to exist. Individuals can exist without rules, society absolutely cannot.
In that case there’s obviously nothing I or anyone else can offer to help you out of your internalised toxicity (though your applying it to others laterally isn’t ok - people on benefits who oppose the state that is oppressing us are not “biting the hand that feeds us” nor should I or anyone else on benefits bow down to the state just because you’ve been made to believe you should). Good luck to you.