Hey peeps, after hitting the frontpage of reddit, we got a good amount of new users on our instance, to the point where our admin team was struggling to keep up with the application forms.

More users means more issues and therefore more reports, so we are looking to onboard one more admin to the instance. If you are interested, these are the requirements:

Requirements

  • You must be an anarchist, and enthusiastically endorse the instance policies and our anarchist code of conduct. For example this means we also expect you to also be pro-piracy and not hostile to GenAI.
  • You must have been on this instance for at least 3 months, to ensure you understand our culture. Hopefully you’ve been a lemmy poster as well as we expect our admins to dogfood our service. If you were already a comm admin, even better!
  • At this point we are prioritizing women and/or PoC to reinforce our team’s diverse perspectives. So please apply if you are even if you don’t feel as confident.
  • At this point we are prioritizing timezones and countries outside of Europe and the USA to help us get better coverage and better perspectives.
  • You must be willing to use matrix as this is where we organize our instance and our real-time admin chat.
  • You must be willing to keep an eye on reports and applications throughout the day.

What is expected of you

  • We have a fairly chill community around this place, so it’s not too demanding. The time requirements are not too large and we will keep expanding the team to ensure the load per individual admin remains low. So long as using this instance is your primary social media, the “workload”, such as it is, shouldn’t even be noticable.
  • Initiative is encouraged. It’s cool enough for people to just want to help us keep this place tidy, but if you have ideas, you will be free to put them into action directly without asking permission all the time, so long as we can rollback easily.
  • You should have a anarchist democratic mindframe. We don’t need a voting decision on everything (just do direct action), but you should be willing to be judged on your decisions and roll them back if they are unpopular.
  • Remember that while we’re anarchist-flavored, we’re not just for anarchists. So we understand that many of our users might be liberals or otherwise misguided. On top of that, we make a point of welcoming neurodivergent people who don’t always understand social norms and might phrase things in a way that looks really bad when interpreted uncharitably. As such, we want to help people match our values, without turning a misunderstanding into a hostile experience through heavy-handed actions. So a softer hand and charitability is encouraged, while at the same time being firmly against clearly reactionary takes.

Applying

  • You can leave your comments here, which can allow other members of this comm to vouch for you.
  • Please mention your “credentials” and why you think you would make a good member of the team.
  • If you don’t feel comfortable with sharing info, you can reach out to me (or another admin you feel more comfortable with) through PMs or matrix.

Spectating

If you’re just watching this governance thread, feel free to upvote applications you feel are worthy, and/or comment on people you want to vouch for. If you’re a supporter, remember you can also vouch for people directly through a threativore PM.

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  • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I’m not applying, just dropped in to say I’m loving this aplication form, especially the fact that you are openly focusing on diversity and inclusion!

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    many of our users might be liberals or otherwise misguided.

    made me actually lol, thanks (and good luck to them😂)

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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          2 months ago

          For “you”? You mean for the users? If so, yes! The new registration application asks people if they want to divulge their ND, and if so, assigns these flairs. Why, do you want them as well?

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                1 month ago

                Same, I’d really enjoy an ADHD icon.

                ADHD went undiagnosed in women for so long there’s what we call an “epidemic” of older women who don’t even know they have it, because “ADHD is something boys get.” So I enjoy repping the older woman ADHD demo.

  • JiminyCricketz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Could you be clearer as to what “not hostile to GenAI” means? Also is there a post or document that outlines the reasons for this instance being so in favor of AI?

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      2 months ago

      Could you be clearer as to what “not hostile to GenAI” means?

      I don’t know if I can make it clearer. This instance hosts GenAI-focused subs and bots, so someone who thinks GenAI as a technology shouldn’t exist and its output should be banned from every space, probably isn’t a good fit.

      Note that this doesn’t mean that one cannot criticize GenAI in general, or some shitty uses of it, and especially the corpos behind the recent GenAI hype. I’m explicitly quite against those myself.

      Also is there a post or document that outlines the reasons for this instance being so in favor of AI?

      No document, but this instance is part of Haidra which grew out of my own GenAI FOSS crowdsourced project the AI Horde, so when I started it, I wanted it to be friendly to my own projects.