why would i be volunteering? I’m having lag problems with the server because of it’s geographic location in the Netherlands, what does that have to do with volunteering as a mod? lol
The volunteer opening I linked is for a junior ops engineer. There is a separate opening for a mod. The ops engineer position is to help keep the servers running. If you want a server to stay reliable, you need people doing that.
ah. But at the same time it would be good if Lemmy was not as centralized on a single server. Lemmy.world is most of Lemmy at the moment, and when it goes down almost every other server is a snapshot frozen in time.
I think it would be good if there were better tools to find closer servers (like geographically <1000km ) and to spread the fediverse out a bit.
Part of the ops engineering effort (if the person is up to it) could be improving the software for higher reliability. The improvements could then be used on other instances as well.
long term I’d like to, but it requires some investment in dedicated hardware, and I’m guessing getting a domain is not free typically either. How much does it cost to setup and operate a basic server month to month?
how do you find out where they are geographically located? I see they’re in the US from the fediverse.observer list but it doesn’t explain what state they’re in. The server could still be 3000 miles away depending on what state it is.
lemmy.fediverse.observer
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