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Embrace the fragmentation. The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience
by davidork 4y ago
Embrace the fragmentation.
The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience working in tech related field by moderating all these small federated instances.
Plenty of networking opportunities as well.
There are going to be a lot more niche and diverse internet communities, and with things being spread out among the various instances it'll be a lot harder for trolls to summon concentrated attacks.
Communities will be smaller and higher quality while still being able to co-mingle via federation.
Unfortunately that stuff may also apply to more nefarious communities online and they may benefit by hiding amongst all of the other federated instances.
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- collegeburner 4y ago
- kupopuffs 4y agoThis post reeks of deeply rooted, unfounded assumptions and biases. You're saying janitors/unemployed peoples are a demographic? Come now. Anyone can be unemployed or a janitor.
- collegeburner 4y agosorry jannie is a derogatory term for a internet moderator who does it for free. nothing at all against actual janitors who have real jobs. sometimes i get too zoomer for hn.
- davidork 4y agoModerating content, while mundane is valid and valuable experience, not only in the technology aspects but in the human skills that you'd find in any sort of consumer relations focused career. Hopefully people would choose wisely and at least try to have some feel of a community before deciding to take on moderation duties
- dmix 4y agoContent moderation seems to lack the transparency and culture awareness that existing jobs like journalism, lawyers/judicial, first responders, etc type public value jobs have developed over time. Maybe one day it will mature to being an honourable and socially respected job but they have a long way to go if Reddit/Twitter/FB is any indication (HN/dang on the other hand has done an amazing job). It’s valuable no doubt but it’s also littered with petty tyrants, power hungry nerds seeking an outlet for their lack of power elsewhere, and people acting with little regard for wider impact of their choices besides their own emotions and ideological quirks. The type of stuff that would never fly in other socially respected jobs. I personally don’t see it as some sort of career promotion thing. But I’m sure it’s valuable to jobs that have to deal with people everyday, but don’t necessarily have any strong consequences for decisions or top down/societal oversight… like retail and low level sales jobs.
- quickthrower2 4y agoIn the hypothetical example they did get a job. As a moderator.
- rootusrootus 4y agoPaid? By whom? At some level the experience might be useful, but we generally pay interns a decent wage.
- collegeburner 4y agothat's not a job? there's a reason one of the most common ways to insult them is "they do it for free".
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- plazmatic 4y ago