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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Good to hear our little pirate crew is growing, good luck with the search for a new admin!
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Oh wow how do I have both Jolly Roger AND snowflake now XD
I assume you must have picked the captain hook in the form. xd
More likely Captain Morgan (Rum) but it’s too long to remember:D
Good luck @[email protected]. I‘m too busy to be a good admin, but I hope you will get a good partner, as you deserve it.
Hey db, thanks for the instance upkeep as always - I always wondered if there was a (legal) risk having the old FMHY Lemmy be so directly tied to the main site. I’m frankly not familiar with how domains or domain owners are affected by hosting (even just links to) pirated content, but it’s been a background concern with this instance as well. That said this is my Lemmy home, just like my FMHY Lemmy account was before it (with a lurking period in between). And since I quit Reddit after the API mess, this is my primary social media (to the detriment of my acquaintanceships and to a lesser extent social life at large lmao. Women my age are not impressed when they hear I haven’t used Instagram in a decade, I can tell you that.)
I’m not necessarily throwing my hat in the ring, although I’ve logged on enough times and seen spam that others haven’t gotten to. I feel like there’s been a new wave this last week or two. I think I’d be able to help with that if not enough people apply. I’m collapsing most of this into spoilers so I don’t make this thread unreadable. Sorry if my post is too verbose, brevity is important and I’m working on it!
I may not be the mod you want
I don’t think I’d be too heavy handed. Back on Reddit, my country sub actually intentionally allowed the kind of -phobic comments that were the mainstream in our country, if they weren’t particularly abusive/aimed at someone. What was cool is that the rest of the users actually grilled those people (I initially typed bullied), and downvoted them to hell. It was very relieving to see, and the people being harassed IRL about this stuff were definitely getting something from seeing regulars stand up for them, in a context that actually makes sense from our country (most writing about eg, queer issues online is understandably not from here and is culturally disconnected from our actual lives). In a country where, again, the mainstream is very much against these things. I’m not suggesting anything like this moderation “style” here, it was enabled by the relatively slow growth and strong oldhead culture around the sub - and I’m sure that’s no longer possible with the current mainstream explosion of Reddit. But it’s informed my moderation style a lot in the few small pockets of internet that I’ve been tasked with kicking trolls from. I think most people on Lemmy are okay but there has been some unnecessary purity culture as all leftie spaces end up with - I don’t think I’d want to enforce anything over that kind of thing unless it was blatantly reactionary. I just hate spam and blatant sealioning.
I’m at the eastern edge of the EU timezones (I’m in the Middle East, Lebanon, I’m often in adjacent countries for work when travel is not impeded by war). Matrix might just be an issue of convenience, but I can make it work. Checking a browser tab every so often shouldn’t be an issue.
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.
our team’s diverse perspectives
The following is something I’ve wanted to post somewhere but haven’t known exactly where, so, here goes - it’s relevant to the above. I’d like to pick your brains on it. (I see this post is pinned, but I wouldn’t mind people discussing things under my comment if you don’t think it’ll clog up the thread. This is actually specifically why I decided to comment on this post.)
anarchism ramble, "mainstream" internet anarchism vs the reality of living in a very different culture
The thing is… Where I am, given the world that I have grown up in, anarchism is more abstract than it is perhaps in other places. You may have been harassed or otherwise systemically held back by a rigid, government-enforced system, so you may have specific critiques of structures and fundamental ways of organizing society that I couldn’t have. I live in a failed state. The lib fantasy of this well-oiled democratic government that can evolve to tackle things might sound like a distortion of reality to you but to me it is an utter fantasy. Voting for my own representatives by geography and **not by the family religion on my ID card **is a fantasy to me. A parliament that isn’t full of literally-feudal-lords-from-feudal-families-from-the-Ottoman-empire-days is a fantasy to me. Your police are overpaid? Our police deliver sandwiches to make ends meet and can be bribed with basically nothing. I think on some level, there is a lib fantasy that appeals to me, or some sort of statist fantasy, of some theoretical system that could work. I think the way I fundamentally view political movements is very different than how average Westerners see that kind of thing. Like the political compass - what the fuck is even that? These goddamn axes aren’t real! Real life isn’t HOI4!
This extends to other things. A lot of my posts have been about the reality of living in a place like Lebanon, from which news unfortunately only reaches the global audience when the news is absolutely terrible. This has alienated me a lot more from the rest of the world (especially from libs online) whose humanity seems to end as soon as the situation happens far enough away. I know there’s a trend of beating down on a certain triad of instances, but I’ve genuinely seen the most understanding acknowledgement of what is happening here in those communities, and it has been refreshing to be on an instance that federates with them. I might disagree with 40% of their opinions on leftism, sure, but I agree with 80% of their opinions in general - surely we have better things to call them than the people who will turn on us immediately after the revolution? There’s no revolution in the first place if we keep taking cheap shots at each other. (My thoughts on those communities are both longer than this and basically irrelevant anywhere - I don’t really want to elaborate on it. But these guys can be the funniest people on Lemmy, I can’t deny that, even if I can see a lot of their analysis fall apart re:groups and ideologies local to me that they may not be best informed about.)
My point is, I might never reach your definition of dyed-in-the-wool anarchist. But you used the words anarchist flavored and I definitely think that’s where I am. I liked Mutual Aid. I don’t know man. I just have to be very lowkey about my beliefs IRL because I know publicly espousing anything that doesn’t lie on a spectrum of “Moderate” Conservative Liberalism to Thing That Is Too Close To A Local Flavor Of Nazism can get me in trouble. I think it’s cool transgendery stuff exists, it’s social technology, I like technology. I think Jews are normal people. I think historically underprivileged ethnoreligious groups here get a lot of undeserved stick and need help, not more marginalization. You might have a word for my beliefs, but I really don’t.
much shorter AI comment
originally from here
I find the technology interesting but AI as a social phenomenon has been abhorrent.
I think most of us here have a similar view. Plagiarism machine is accurate, but that’s what a Google search looks like to someone from 1985. Not that I don’t prefer getting linked to information sources rather than getting incoherent slop.
I’ve not hated using local image generation to mock up ideas or turn around a private joke meme with friends. I have hated every advertisement bombarding me with nonsense buzzwords and leaders at work not understanding the technology. But I’m not an artist or writer whose work is getting chewed into a machine that gets all the credit. And I’m not a woman who could be blackmailed (or at least be robbed of agency) by fake nudes. Machine learning is a power tool, unfortunately people are just bastards.
And regarding piracy, we are on the exact same page.
The original FMHY instance was on .ml actually. It was only the second one that used their .net domain but it shut down quickly after opening anyway.
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Thank you for ensuring this place is neurodivergent friendly:)
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😂)
Thanks!
While I’ve got you here, I noticed the top comment from the bot here has asd and adhd icons, are those for us too?
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?
Oh shit can I get ADHD flair too <3
Yeah, that is what I meant! I’m autistic, and am considering it… 😁
Sure, let me know which flair you want
Gimme adhd flair. :3
I do not match all of the criteria on your wishlist, but just in case you do need some extra help feel free to consider this application, or not, all good.
Dbzer0 is my now my only social media. I joined Lemmy after the Reddit attack on 3rd party apps. I had been active there for 12 years, and it was really disappointing to see the slow, and then very fast enshitifcation of what had become my online home. Something similar had happened to Digg years before that, and it was clear that the fediverse was the way out of corporate controlled internet hangouts that would all inevitably go down the same enshitty road. Federated systems are quickly becoming more and more important
About me: Canadian, he/him, have a three legged cat pics available on request, work online so generally around all the time, use arch btw.
Thoughts on stuff:
Diversity and inclusion - fierce supporter
LGBTQIA+ - fierce supporter
Fascism - I’m with Woodie Guthrie on this
AI - Do not like corporate / state controlled AI. Can’t insult Musk on GPT. Can’t insult the state on DeepSeek. That being said, I like using it to help me with coding, rephrasing emails at work to help me stay professional. Looking forward to more open source AI for the people by the people sorta thing. Anarchist AI
Piracy - Its only a matter of time until Spez ejects the piracy subreddit and megathread into space, at which time I think we will see a large influx of peg-legged refugees here on dbzer0. My seed ratio is good
Dbzer0 - Since landing here I have made it my home. I cannot state how much I appreciate this instance and have no doubts that we will be one of the major fediverse hubs in the near future. I genuinely want to help this place grow, either with my shitposts, flippant comments, or doing admin gruntwork if you think I’m a good fit.
Anyway, there you go, all the best and thanks for what you do here
ACK. cheers
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?
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.
Anarchist to the bone. Love the attitude.
Thank you for clarifying for me as well. I somehow didn’t see this requirement when I applied via my phone.
I’m not against AI, as a whole. I’m against AI in how it’s being shoved down our throats, for problems we don’t have, for problems that were solved with good indexing.
GenAI images I’ll admit…while I wouldn’t ban someone for it, I do believe we’re entering a dangerous time politically where Gen AI can be used for disinformation. It’s getting more difficult to sort out real images from fake. GenAI Images used for fun (e.g. blog post, etc.) I have no problem with.
This perspective is all fine. I’m also worried about disinformation and force-feeding us AI slop. Sadly the cat’s out of the bag on these areas. (Doesn’t mean we have to accept it sitting down of course).
Nevertheless My GenAI projects are all the “just for fun” variety. But I still get haters almost every time I use a GenAI image for my personal blog, or for a lemmy self post.
Thanks for clarifying!
Was also wondering, also, good luck with the search!
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Hey there! 👋
I just became a mod of c/piracy so I might be over reaching.
Please read my application to help out in some way since helping financially (at least right now) is not yet feasible due to foreign transaction fees, and not someone who is power hungry 😅
That said, feel free to decline my application if you all feel I need more experience. I will not take offense.
I am an American born POC male (specifically Asian; I don’t want to get more specific than that but will share more in DMs if needed).
I have been an admin on other large platforms (will share over DMs) as well as my own discord server, handling things like content moderation as well as more sensitive issues like user stalking.
My philosophy on modding is that violations that require immediate action should be clear and above board. I love how mod decisions on Lemmy are public! Controversial decisions should be explained in as much detail as possible. I do NOT believe that decisions should be popular. Tough decisions rarely are. But those decisions should be open to criticism as needed so that users feel heard and understood.
Happy to be considered
ACK. Thanks for applying.
I like your modding philosophy. Clear and concise.
Lmao, tone probably didnt mean to come off this way but sounded like an antianarchist conservative dad “I do NOT believe that decisions should be popular. Tough decisions rarely are.”
I am not applying but I blv the whole point of lemmy over reddit is decisions are popular? Thats why we ran from the mfs that thought they were above popular opinion
Trust me, when it comes for moderation, there’s always going to be dissent. The point is to handle the dissent gracefully
Exactly. I do believe, however, there should be strong consensus, meaning that even if you disagree with a particular action, you can be supportive of why that decision was made.
Disagreeing with something is not the same thing as not liking something.
Good luck~!
Posting for the “algorithm” /s
pro-piracy and not hostile to GenAI.
Anarchism is when you hate art and humanity.
