Hey everyone,
The Fedihosting Foundation is looking for a new site-admin for Lemmy.World, to help our busy team. This moderator will help with reviewing and acting on reports, weighing in on user content, and helping foster our local communities while acting as a friendly neighbor to other fediverse instances.
You also DO NOT need to have an account on one of our FHF services but WILL have to create an account after joining. Users from other sites WELCOME!
Benefits:
- Youâll get to work with a great team of passionate kind, goofy individuals from all over the (lemmy) world!
- We have weekly virtual hangouts where we brainstorm new ideas and catch up with each other. Community for us is not just a buzzword.
- We can also provide work and personal references, as we are a registered legal non-profit.
- While not a technical role, you will also gain exposure to best-in-class industry tooling and processes for large-scale hosted applications (aka modern DevOps).
- We also run a small blog, that weâd love to have folks contribute to.
- Join in on the editorial voice for our featured communities.
- We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work come first
- If youâre having a hard time finding time or are busy, we will always do our best to help and support you.
Applicants should have the following qualities:
- Experience moderating a diverse group of individuals from many geographic, religious, and LGBTQ+ backgrounds.
- Able to commit to at least 5-10 hours a week.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication.
- Solid background in conflict resolution.
- Must be able to speak English.
- Works well asynchronously with remote teams.
- Grammar skills optional đ
Bonus skills (which you will learn if you donât already)
- SQL / Business Intelligence software skills.
- N8N workflow automation
- Web Design (Hugo + GitHub Pages).
- Python scripting
Application process:
- It goes without saying that we will only be considering applicants with a significant positive history of online posts and/or comments, no trolls, please.
- Applicants must be okay with sitting for a video interview and must pass a basic background check.
- While not strictly required, a CV with relevant work and volunteer history will help during the application process.
- We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2), so we would ask that candidates be flexible with their availability.
Please apply HERE https://forms.gle/epTdTy9Xh9kNFKsQA
(Edit: Updated post, thanks Donuts!)
(Edit2: Thanks for all the feed back on this post, itâs much appreciated đđđ)
(Edit3: If you feel like youâd fit in, apply, the reqâs that we posted are more of a suggestion, then a hard yes or no)
I literally said it pushed me back to reddit? Iâm just not going to do the manual work of migrating to a new instance every time the current oneâs mods get rid of a community Iâm interested in, simple as that.
This is like telling your neighbor that you like pie, and after work, and after the kids are put to bed, they spend the night baking you a pie using the apples that grow in their yard.
When they come over with the warm pie that they went out of their way to bake, you say that you prefer cherry pie, then complain about having to go to the same old bakery to get a cherry pie.
Just say thank you, take the pie, and give it to someone who will appreciate it. And if you want cherry pie, offer to help out when they bake next and bring some damn cherries.
Nah, right now, using your analogy, itâs a pie stand. Like a lemonade stand, but for free pie. The neighbors can come around if they want for free pie. As Iâm walking by, theyâre asking the neighbors for help: too many people want free pie, they canât make pies fast enough. I like their pies, I like that theyâre free, but lately they just havenât been having what Iâm looking for.
I say to one of their neighbors, âtheir pies tasted better when they were using real sugar, but theyâre scared the kidsâ mommies will be mad because their kids are up all night so they just took the sugar out. Didnât even replace it with anything. The Johnsonâs still use real sugar, they donât care.â
I start to walk away to get a Johnson pie and now all the neighbors are angry with me that I prefer pie with sugar. They say I should be THANKFUL for the charity work from the neighbors I didnât fucking ask for. That, just because itâs volunteer work, that makes them above criticism. Everyone else is happy with it, so I should be too.
Iâm thankful for the mods and their volunteer work. I can still disagree with decisions they make. Really not hard to understand.
I say to one of their neighbors, âtheir pies tasted better when they were using real sugar, but theyâre scared the kidsâ mommies will be mad because their kids are up all night so they just took the sugar out. Didnât even replace it with anything. The Johnsonâs still use real sugar, they donât care.â
Actually, I would say that unless it impacts you negatively, you shouldnât criticize what others are giving freely. If they ask for criticism, thatâs fine. But you shouldnât volunteer it.
That âfree pie standâ didnât do you wrong. You dumped a heap of negativity on them for something they did out of the goodness of their heart, spending their time, energy and hand-earned money on. And you were negative about it, staining their memory of that event for your own selfish desires.
If they had asked you, âwhy donât you want this pie?â you could have answered, nicely. But they didnât ask you.
Instead, you should have just left and gone to the Johnstonâs pie stand instead.
