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.
Please be aware, we will only be considering applicants with a significant positive history of online posts and/or comments. You also DO NOT need to be a have a account on one of our FHF services, but WILL have to create a account after joining. Users from other sites WELCOME!
Applicants MUST have the following qualities:
- Experience moderating a diverse group of individuals
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication
- Solid background in conflict resolution
- Able to both understand and interpret the spirit of our legal documents (ex legal.lemmy.world)
- Must be able to speak English
- Works well asynchronously with remote teams
Bonus skills / background:
- Experience with internet law and international legal compliance
- SQL / Business Intelligence software skills (MetaBase)
- Social Media marketing
- Web Design (Hugo + GitHub Pages)
Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to commit to at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work come first.
Applicants must be okay with sitting for a video interview and must be pass a 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.
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I literally said it pushed me back to reddit? I’m just not going to do the manual work of migrating to a new instance every time the current one’s mods get rid of a community I’m interested in, simple as that.
This is like telling your neighbor that you like pie, and they’re done with after work, and after the kids are put to bed, they spend the night baking you a pie using the apples that grow in their yard.
When they come over with the warm pie that they went out of their way to bake, you say that you prefer cherry pie, then complain about having to go to the same old bakery to get a cherry pie.
Just say thank you, take the pie, and give it to someone who will appreciate it. And if you want cherry pie, offer to help out when they bake next and bring some damn cherries.
Nah, right now, using your analogy, it’s a pie stand. Like a lemonade stand, but for free pie. The neighbors can come around if they want for free pie. As I’m walking by, they’re asking the neighbors for help: too many people want free pie, they can’t make pies fast enough. I like their pies, I like that they’re free, but lately they just haven’t been having what I’m looking for.
I say to one of their neighbors, “their pies tasted better when they were using real sugar, but they’re scared the kids’ mommies will be mad because their kids are up all night so they just took the sugar out. Didn’t even replace it with anything. The Johnson’s still use real sugar, they don’t care.”
I start to walk away to get a Johnson pie and now all the neighbors are angry with me that I prefer pie with sugar. They say I should be THANKFUL for the charity work from the neighbors I didn’t fucking ask for. That, just because it’s volunteer work, that makes them above criticism. Everyone else is happy with it, so I should be too.
I’m thankful for the mods and their volunteer work. I can still disagree with decisions they make. Really not hard to understand.
Actually, I would say that unless it impacts you negatively, you shouldn’t criticize what others are giving freely. If they ask for criticism, that’s fine. But you shouldn’t volunteer it.
That “free pie stand” didn’t do you wrong. You dumped a heap of negativity on them for something they did out of the goodness of their heart, spending their time, energy and hand-earned money on. And you were negative about it, staining their memory of that event for your own selfish desires.
If they had asked you, “why don’t you want this pie?” you could have answered, nicely. But they didn’t ask you.
Instead, you should have just left and gone to the Johnston’s pie stand instead.
Poor analogy.