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Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone! Ella here,

I’d like to preface this post by thanking each and every one of our users for being here with us. Over the past year, lemm.ee has seen slow but very steady user growth. Our goal of being a general purpose, accessible instance for anyone wanting to use the fediverse the way they see fit, has largely been achieved to date.

However with that success comes an increase in administrative burden. This is reflected primarily in delays approving applications, delays in responding to requests on our support forum, and slow response to some reports.

In an effort to combat this, we are looking to bring on two new admins, whose primary duties will consist of reviewing incoming applications and reports.

Note we will be making decisions on this gradually, with input from the entire existing admin team.

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

If there is anybody who would be interested in helping out even despite the above disclaimer, please DM me with the following info:

On a typical day, during what hours are you active on lemm.ee (with timezone info)
Do you have any previous experience with moderation/administration
Are you in agreement with the current state of the lemm.ee administration policy.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Get in touch with me, I am highly experienced in community moderation, I bet we can come to an agreement

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve modded on Reddit, interested in the opportunity to mod here.

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

How can I become one?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Lemmy should create a crypto currency that users and mods earn for engagement/ participation so people are monetized not by corporate advertising money,

It was a big slap to the face when reddit went public but still kept mods as unpaid slave labor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm in Taiwan and can work some of the night shifts. I'm fairly active and don't mind helping out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Taiwan number 1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No tankie here!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Admins: Hire this person

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Army of neck beards just shot out of their couch to submit their mod resume

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Best of luck in finding the right people to help keep things running smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

kas sa oskad Eesti keelt? (can you speak estonian?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Long live the great lemm.ee

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the effort of running this place - it's working well from my perspective - and hope you find the colleagues you need. :)

Myself, I can't volunteer - I already moderate a few communities elsewhere, my time is limited, and I'm politically too partial. I also cannot say that I fully agree with local federation policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What don't u like about federation policy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

As you said in one of the comments, 5 hours a week would put me on the list.. But I'm not sure what the tasks are about and whether I can do them at all since Lemmy has been mobile only for me.. I wouldn't mind to help out, but I'm not sure if I'm actually up for the job

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How much time do you usually spend per day as an admin? I'm asking because I'm wondering what the commitment looks like and if it works with a schedule where I'm often on the road.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

At a minimum I’d request 5 hours a week cumulatively, with more of course being beneficial.

Tasks like reviewing reports and applications only take a few minutes and can be done on a mobile device- I personally approve most applications on my phone.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

Can I become the admin and then become the ultimate godmod by removing all the other mods?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This stuff always worries me. Like, yeah, the current admins are actual tankies, BUT they don't abuse their position and let Lemmy be free as it can be. It only takes a few bad actors to ruin this entire thing and send us right back to the corporate run highly censored bullshit.

If I were religious this would be something I would legit pray about. Don't fuck this up, please.

EDIT: I misread, this is about Lemm.ee, not Lemmy. Please disregard (but the sentiment stays).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It only takes a few bad actors

No, it does not. That is the whole point of the decentralized system - the few bad actors can only have power over their specific instance and you can leave it anytime you want.

So the sentiment actually does not stay ;)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It only takes a few bad actors to ruin this entire thing and send us right back to the corporate run highly censored bullshit.

There are enough good actors to keep us safe

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Good luck on your search!

[+] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Its really just lemmy.world and the odd instance running on a pentium gold in someones attic.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You are doing something right. I see people say Lemmy is slow, or there are large amounts of downtime. That has not happened on this instance.

The guy running the instance is a software engineer with devops experience, whereas a lot of others are amateurs. Which isn't a bad thing - it's great that a lot of people are self-hosting things - but something like Lemmy requires a bit of consideration on the infrastructure and security side of things.

I think there are ideological factors too. Ping lemm.ee or lemmy.world to get the IP address - you get a Cloudflare IP according to the WHOIS. Ping lemmy.ml and you get OVH SAS as the owner. Same for Hexbear actually. Both instances are run by tankies and if there's one thing that they get right, it's that the entire Internet shouldn't go through one single corporation. Unfortunately, that one single corporation, Cloudflare, also provides excellent DDoS protection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the thing about cloudflare is that it hasn't given any reason to move away from it. Of course, if it goes down, everyone will know about it. I think deflect.ca is an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's no true alternative to cloudflare because cloudflare provides you with a ridiculous amount of nice things, many with generous free tiers.

Deflect has a 10 dollar minimum which is basically nothing, but at the same time, way more than cloudflare where basic protection is free.

Yes, I'm also a CF user for my personal and business domains. Not sure if I'm happy about it but then again I haven't paid them a cent yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's OVH SAS?

I work in software but wouldn't mind getting better at the administrative side of things myself. It means I probably have to learn Linux better, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's just a host they both use. Exposing it is not a bad thing inherently, but unless you know what you're doing you're probably better off hiding it behind cloudflare. Cloudflare can handle a DDoS a lot better than some regional hosting provider. So I'm not saying OVH SAS is a bad hosting provider, but that it's easier to DDoS an instance not behind Cloudflare (ml, hex)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!