https://lemmy.world/post/36032

I don't think you guys meet my requirements. I don't use proprietary software, and use a whitelist firewall with addresses I know and trust. While I can spin up a secondary network or even a Windows machine, I do not care to do so at all, and certainly not regularly. My primary reason for the whitelist is because of my terrible code quality, dislike of data mining from corporate America, and distrust of PDF datasheets for vintage electronics hobby projects from 3rd party sources. I don't connect to anything like discord because of their random IP addresses without human readable names, weird ports, and undocumented protocol. I don't use google at all because I fundamentally disagree with their business model, and have black listed all of their servers.

This is how you get infiltrated.

If .world won’t pay someone impeccably qualified to perform this job, some other group will.

I bet a sufficiently motivated asset could juggle several different intelligence agencies, ngos/lobbying organizations and criminal syndicates and turn this into a ~100k a year gig.

If a potential candidate doesn't understand why there's a strong vetting process then then don't understand the changing paradigm of human communication. Teaching that is an unacceptable liability. The OpSec is on point. Great work. And, thank you for everything, including tolerance of those that don't yet understand why.

I'm not applying but I have a comment / suggestion:

A pattern I'm seeing here, in activism and open source is that you basically want the full package right now. While I understand that that is what you need, people like that don't grow on trees.

It would be good if there was a "trainee" position for people to gain the kind of experience you are asking for. And guidance, by you to make sure they learn the right lessons. Possibly including a private-ish best practices handbook or whatever. I know that that means additional work in the short term.

Thanks for reading, all the best wishes!

(Compare to linux' kernel team asking for kernel devs and the policy of "pick any topic you'd like to work on". Do I expect a fully course on everything, bringing me from "high school knowledge" to "kernel dev professional"? No, of course not. But a few book recommendations would be great. In that case. Not sure if you can learn moderation from a book.)

Sounds a lot like my current job. Working for a non profit, ingest shit and spew rainbows. I have nothing to encourage you to consider me.

Man this job posting is worse then all the garbage that companies put out. There will be very few people who tolerate KYC for non-paying volunteer internet janny job - and those who do should probably never be mods. Good luck tho, you'll need it.

My job didn't even require a video interview, this unpaid role has more strict requirements than half the jobs in the US haha.

I'd be happy to apply, but requiring a CV and full background check in addition to a video call interview is a bit steep for me.

Just the video call I'd absolutely be applying, I genuinely believe in Lemmy and want to see it succeed, but not to the point that I'm willing to put this much information into non-employment hands.

Good luck on the search.

Honest question; why does this have to be a volunteer role? Is there any room in the Open Collective fund to pay towards renumerating someone for something like this?

I probably check all the boxes. Currently a cyber security engineer have worked in infrastructure for the last twenty years and currently head up the compliance team of the cyber division of the company I work for, I focused mainly on NIST, CMMC, and SOC II compliance. I’ve modded a few forums and discord servers over the last 20 or so years. There is no way in hell I’m dropping private info on a random google doc that’s open to the public. If there is a more secure way send my info send me a message.