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 😛

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 💗💗💗)

(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)

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 days ago

    Must be able to speak English

    Ah, fuck, I’m out. It’s one of the only languages I haven’t learned. Were this a post seeking Sanskrit, Mayan, Akkadian, or High Valyrian language speakers, I’d be just the right candidate.

    Pop quiz: which of the above is not a historical language? If you guessed Klingon, your reading comprehension skills are for shit. The answer is English. It’s completely made up and only appears in Fantasy genre stories – along with birds and flying spaghetti monsters and hobbits.

    Wow, I’m really bored at work, I guess. Glad it’s Friday. Hope you all have a nice weekend.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I do not qualify…

    …and I do not think my posts have “a significant positive history of online posts and/or comments”…

    Awesome, either way, keep up the good and hard work y’all do!

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    14 days ago

    I feel like „site admin“ is a bit misleading. Then again, lemmy doesnt have a proper distinction between local and site wide moderators afaik.

    I‘d be interested to help with real admin stuff like docker containers, dns and firewalls. Let me know if that interests you.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    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.

  • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      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.

      • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        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.

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

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

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    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.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    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.

      • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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        13 days ago

        I don’t know if it’s profitable, but if reddit users break away and start using something different, developed by communists and friendly to non-western and anticapitalist ideas it would be easy for a person or group opposed to that to see it as a threat to be observed, controlled and infiltrated for the purposes of sabotage.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          if reddit users break away and start using something different,

          They remained fine after they took away 3rd party API. They remained fine after the IPO, and began implementing bots to do automodding. They remained fine when they announced they were selling all users data to google for AI training.

          What sort of event, short of elon musk buying reddit, do you forsee that causes mass migration of platforms?

          • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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            12 days ago

            i don’t. i don’t see cpusa forming a vanguard party and leading the glorious american socialist peoples revolution either but that didn’t stop em from getting eat up with feds.

  • justaderp@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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.

      • justaderp@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        You don’t start a career as a CEO.

        Radicals don’t often recruit in public.

        Seek and ye shall find.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          You don’t start a career as a CEO.

          But they often start as “executives” which is a huge problem.

          Very few modern CEOs have ever actually worked a day in their lives. They move around between various different industries with no knowledge of what’s important.

          Their only concern is making stock price go up over a short timeframe

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        There was a line on 3rd rock from the sun that was so relatable to me as a teenager in the 90s.

        Tommy, the oldest alien, now trapped in the teenagers body, is trying to get a job at a fast food place. The manager turns him down. And when Tommy asks why, the manager says “I can’t hire you, you have no experience!”

        And when Tommy asks how you get experience, the manager says “First you get a job”. Tommy asks how you get a job, and the manager says “You need experience!”

  • i2ndshenanigans@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    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.

    • William@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I 100% agree with your point about security and private information, but you are way over qualified for this “job”. ;)

      It’s kind of weird to ask someone to have all that mod experience and then expect them to just post their private information publicly, though. Surely if they have enough experience they’ll already know what a bad idea it is to publicly post people’s information, and it’ll be hard to get them to apply.

      It reminds me of a past job recognizing that I have a lot of cashier experience, but then not being able to understand why I refuse to share a till with anyone else. Duh, because I’ve been through that pain before and any smart office will want to avoid it, too.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Currently have CyberSecurity degree. I’m finding it difficult to get a job in the field without relevant experience of having a job in the field. How can I get experience to get the job that requires experience?

  • Alk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

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

    • peregus@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Yes, but for your job you’ve given to your employer your ID and your home address. If you mess something up they know ehere to get you. These guys can’t get these warranties and they need to know you better.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        What stops you from lying during a video interview? It’s not like they have some crazy virtual lie detector.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

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

      It’s an IT job for a role with big responsibility. Unpaid or not, the role is the role. Fulling up the shelves in a grocery store comes with a bit less responsibility.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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      13 days ago

      My guess is it’s because it’s a similar role to a Reddit Admin, which is to say they’re basically a global moderator. Also, having access of any kind to the site’s SQL server requires an element of trust. That’s probably why they require the video interview.

      • lwadmin@lemmy.worldOPM
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        10 days ago

        Folks that would be brought in would be part of the admin staff and have access to quite a lot. You’re on target with that for sure!