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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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[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

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

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