Hexbear Volunteer Drive

Hello users of Hexbear, we are excited to start our next volunteer drive!

If you wish to contribute to https://bulletins.hexbear.net/ please visit https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/bulletins/src/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.md and follow the instructions, if you need assistance reach out to Layla via Matrix Ella via Matrix or me via Matrix or @SeventyTwoTrillion

If you wish to contribute to site development please refer to here as our current Dev Volunteer Focus is to fork Lemmy again, this time deliberately not diverging too far from upstream so it's easier to maintain the patches and apply them on top of each new Lemmy release.

This is a large undertaking. There is no timeline, but we expect it to be a while before the site is migrated over to the finished fork.

We're still in the early stages, but the more people involved the sooner we can progress. Primarily, we need developers (Rust & TypeScript) and ops/infrastructure people. Please reach out to Layla via Matrix

Ella via Matrix or me via Matrix If you're interested in helping out. If you need help setting it up, let me know.

For more information contributing to the dev side of Hexbear please refer to this post

Anyone interested in moderating a community please send an application with the communities you would like to moderate included.

If you wish to create a new community briefly describe what it would be in a comment, in addition to sending in a mod application

Please comment to show interest or go ahead and begin the application process.

Create an Element account and send the following application via Matrix

The answers will be reviewed by the admin team, and applications will not be copied into unencrypted communication without your permission.

Application

What is your Hexbear username?

Do you have any preferred pronouns?

What are your thoughts on capitalism?

What are your thoughts on imperialism?

What are your thoughts on trans rights?

What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter and the recent protests?

What do those protests tell you?

What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?

Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities? What did those experiences teach you?

What is your approach to moderation and how do you work with teams?

Do you have an account with Reddit, Discord, or Twitter? If so, may we review them?

How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?

What current comms would you be interested in moderating? Do you have any ideas for community engagement?

What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)

Element information

Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.

To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser ("Launch Element Web").

The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:

Press "Create Account"
We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat. This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username. (Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open on chapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account on matrix.org)
Fill in a username and password
Hit register, and you're done!