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submitted 1 year ago by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld

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Lemmy.World is looking for 4 new Systems operators to help with our growing community.

Volunteers will assist our existing systems team with monitoring and maintenance.

We’re ideally looking for chill folks that want to give back to their community and work on our back-end infrastructure. Must have 4+ years of professional experience working in systems administration. We are not looking for junior admins at this time. Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to help at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work comes first.

Applicants must be okay with providing their CV and/or LinkedIn profile AND sitting for a video interview. This is due to the sensitivity of the infrastructure you will have access to.

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.

If you are in AEST (+10) or JST (+9) please let us know, as we are looking for at least one Sysadmin to help out during our overnight.

You may be asked to participate in an on-call pool. Please keep in mind that this is a round-robin style pool, so it's alright if you're busy as it will just move along the chain.

If you're interested and want to apply, click here.

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[+] EatMyDick -13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] agent_flounder 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think non profit corps are the only way any non-corpo social media effort will offer a viable alternative to the corporate bastards.

If one wants decent uptime that takes knowledge, skills, talent, as well as sound processes and supporting technology, and decent infosec. It is hard enough for corporations to find that (see: Reddit and its abysmal uptime, or any company with a major breach in the last decade) let alone volunteers.

I hope they can find the folks. I do.

I fear that going cheap on IT isn't usually a winning strategy for the long term.

Perhaps someone out there will decide to do as you suggest to stand up their own instance and have a small paid staff. I think with the right tools and processes as force multipliers you can maximize uptime, while minimizing sysadmin drama and burnout.

[–] xaxl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lol don't you look silly. Here's who's running this server. They're already fully set up as a non-profit.

https://joinmastodon.org/about

[–] kroy 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone that fits this bill perfectly, and considered tossing my hat in the ring, I kind of agree with this person.

While I may not agree with the phrasing and hostility, the point still stand that they are effectively looking for Senior Level + DevOps.

And 5 hours a week will turn into 30+ as the person or persons takes over ownership of the required pieces.

My main holdup is just having enough time personally.

[–] EatMyDick 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree I'm pretty pissy and numb to the former reddit and now lemmy crowd. It's all just bitching that everything should be free without looking into the reality of costs (among others off topic topics). I want a decentralized network to happen but I am 100% expecting the community to fuck it up.

This is like year of the Linux desktop for social media just playing out in duplicate with no understanding why Linus desktop never took off.

[–] legion02 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as they don't lament your existence when they disagree with you it's a false dichotomy. It's OK to ask for volunteers from the community, that's kinda what makes it a community. It's not OK to shit on your volunteers.

[–] EatMyDick 3 points 1 year ago

You can do whatever the heck you want. Successful communities are rarely successful at scale without funding. Debian, RHEL, C, Rust, Go, Apache, Nginx, Ruby, JS, etc all have a considerable commercial backing. Nothing tells me anyone had a viable long term plan for ensuring privacy and stability.