Looking for a new instance admin

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!

Also

many of our users might be liberals or otherwise misguided.

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

Acknowledged governance topic opened by https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/db0

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Thank you for ensuring this place is neurodivergent friendly:)

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

Reasons why you should not pick me:

• I do not qualify for any of the requirements.

Reasons why you should pick me:

I look forward to hearing back from you and hope you choose me as your next admin. Thanks.

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!

::: spoiler 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.

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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.)

::: spoiler 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.

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::: spoiler 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.

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And regarding piracy, we are on the exact same page.

Good luck @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I‘m too busy to be a good admin, but I hope you will get a good partner, as you deserve it.

Good luck~!

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

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?

Hi all! I'd like to apply if I may, but with a caveat: I have near-zero experience relevant to adminning. I've been co-admin for a small Discord group for a game I play for a while, and I was op in some IRC rooms 💯 years ago, but that's about it 😅

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.

While I'm not one for political labels in particular, I read up on this aspect when I applied to join and there is nothing in CoC that I'm not in support of. I'm pro-piracy to a bit of an extreme 🏴‍☠️ , and have no issue with 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!

I'm not a terribly active commenter and you definitely won't catch me posting often, but I'm a pretty regular reader of top-6h-all. That said this is my primary social media platform 🧓 My cake day is 3 Oct 2023.

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.

I am a white male, but am also LGBT and formally diagnosed ADHD 🤪

At this point we are prioritizing timezones and countries outside of Europe and the USA to help us get better coverage and better perspectives.

I live in Sydney, Australia 🙃 Currently at GMT+11, sorry peeps you're never gonna catch up 🦕

You must be willing to use matrix as this is where we organize our instance and our real-time admin chat.

I'm already a member (sorry about that everyone) 😵‍💫

You must be willing to keep an eye on reports and applications throughout the day.

No worries there ✅

Credentials

I'm a generalist Sysadmin/DevOps/Infrastructure/whatever-we're-calling-it-today Engineer with 15 years industry experience 🤓 I'm currently unemployed (and have been for a year or so now) 🍑 but can share my LinkedIn/resume and discuss my work history etc. If I can, I would also like to contribute to the instance, and to Lemmy at large from an infra/automation perspective, but it's difficult to do without visibility into the challenges of running a production instance. I have spent a lot of time in stacks similar to Lemmy's and have been self-hosting (remote) for a decade.

I'll be around (except during an 8-hour period of your day, starting about 6 hours from posting time 😅), hit me up whenever/wherever with whatever 👍

Thanks admins! 🤝

Good to hear our little pirate crew is growing, good luck with the search for a new admin!

I will offer my assistance, but as I'm a white cis dude, I dont want to be considered if other options qualify. Over specializing breeds weakness!

Love the community, and I want to help however I can... Let's make this place thrive!

I'm around. I'm an American living in Albania. I don't post much, but am willing to step up. I've been supporting the instance since it was created.

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.

Well, I can certainly be pro piracy and pro GenAI and I can get down with an anarchist code of conduct but I simply myself cannot identify as an anarchist as my existence entirely depends on government assistance, and thus get myself disqualified from the position. I am an immigrant from EU living in the US. Good luck with finding a dependable admin.

I'm not really applying, but if you don't find anyone else who's suitable for this position, I could help out. Everything is basically already described in my application for c/piracy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16413044

But I'm neither a woman, nor a PoC, nor outside of Europe.

Posting for the "algorithm" /s

hmm, a bit off topic, but if this was based on need for development what are the skills you'd be interested in for applicants ? I presume rust (but don't know the exact tools) and python for genAI,

pro-piracy and not hostile to GenAI.

Anarchism is when you hate art and humanity.