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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:

  • You'll 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 we'd 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 you're 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 ๐Ÿ˜›

Bonus skills (which you will learn if you don't 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, it's much appreciated ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—)

(Edit3: If you feel like you'd fit in, apply, the req's that we posted are more of a suggestion, then a hard yes or no)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The warm fuzzy you feel after a job well done

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

i would just like to take this opportunity and say thank you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Put me in coach

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I volunteer as tribute! I will enact GREAT VENGEANCE against my enemies!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Serious question, why would anybody do this? These are the requirements of an actual job but without any of the pay. If someone is putting in this much effort, they might as well just apply for a real job and get paid for it.

I understand that you guys want to screen people first, but lmao are you guys going overboard. The people who view this as hobby aren't going to put themselves through such unnecessary and worthless hassle, and the people who want a job won't apply because there's no money involved. The only people who would qualify and want to do something like this are people who literally have no life. These are people who have no family, jobs, or a social life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

one trying to change careers into DevOps/SRE with no/little experience; using this volunteer work to throw into a resume?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I work in the industry actually, this wouldn't really help you unless you completely lack any sort of experience. If you want to break into the field, you'll need a few things: Bachelor's in CS, a couple of coding projects that you do in your free time or during undergrad, and an internship related to the field. That's how I got started, but I get your point

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I work in IT as a Linux System Engineer and I'm currently unemployed. I could do it, but there's a lot involved for zero pay. You really have to love Lemmy or admin work to want to do this for free.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Exactly, they're trying to pass off the responsibilities of an actual job as a hobby. I don't see how normal people can justify putting in that much time and effort for something that's not paid. This type of commitment has to come from people who have a lot of spare time and are on Lemmy so much that it wouldn't change much for them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I would do it!

I'll have to learn all those skills and I might be a bad mod, but why not?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I take offense to some of that, but I applied to be an admin back in Q3 of last year. After the video interview I got ghosted. Thought I would give this a shot, had another video interview, and yeah I'm not expecting much. So yeah, I'm not even sure the process actually does anything other than waste time.

I do have a very well paying job, family, but you may have called me out on the "no life" thing... Though I do have a car that's become a bit of a project so I don't waste as much time on "IT" shit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Probably just grabbing your personal data for sale later.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Let me ask you this, as someone with a life, why did you even entertain the idea of wasting time on something this pointless in the first place? Do you find it fun? What's the thought process? Personally, after I finish working I want to spend my free time hanging out with my friends, family, go on a vacation, etc. If I really do have extra spare time on a consistent basis, I would much rather practice guitar, play ball, or doing things like you're doing now with your car. I see no benefit whatsoever from becoming a committed unpaid admin in general, let alone for an irrelevant site.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I'm an unemployed Linux System Engineer and even though I spent most of my free time right now messing with my home server I wouldn't wanna do it for free for something that actually "mattered" (aka something that people use).

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why are you taking the time to tell us about this? You should be off playing with your dog or whatever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I would be willing, but I don't have any modding experience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I created a PHP website once. Where do I sign?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Me me me! Ova here!!! Memememememe!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did I understand that correct that applicants would have to tell their real name?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, of course.

must pass a basic background check.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's what made me wonder. Do they just assume applicants use their real name on social media, and when they don't find anything online the person seems sus?

Do they ask for a police record like companies here would do sometimes?

I'm not familiar with that term unless you work with critical infrastructure and such, so I assumed they might just want to see some online behaviour from the past years with some proof that applicants have experience as admins.

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