Since making the announcement last night to become community driven, The Agora has quickly become an active place full of discussions, proposals and voting. In order to keep things going I’m looking for volunteers to help facilitate the conversations and apply the rules that have been determine by this community.

As a mod of The Agora you should be active on our main matrix channel and willing to help facilitate conversations between other mods and users.

As a mod:

  • you will still retain your right to vote just like anyone else.
  • may be dismissed by the community if its felt you are abusing your powers or pushing your own agenda.
  • will help maintain order.
  • follow the rules of the community.

Not sure you want to help mod this community but would like to nominate someone else? go ahead and nominate someone.

  • sweetholymosiah@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m interested in helping to mod The Agora.
    Despite ongoing monopolization and domination of the free internet today, I personally still believe in the potential of technology to democratize institutions and I think a platform like lemmy is uniquely suited to develop and promote a powerful form of representative democracy.
    I haven’t really modded any kind of forum in the past, but I am motivated to commit my time and interpersonal skills to the development of this community.
    I support free speech as long as it does not break any laws. I am a long time redditor. I witnessed digg destroy itself, and for many years I have been disappointed in how a centralized reddit has become captured by corporate power.
    Concerning the potential of sh.itjust.works/c/agora, I currently see the community as being more suited to discussion, and I’m not entirely sure how we could apply this site in it’s current form to the process and procedure of voting on policy. It may be useful to consider moving the actual voting to a decentralized platform that is designed around voting on specific items. Something on a blockchain? A DAO application? Anyways, please let me know if I can be of service to this unique experiment in representative democracy and self-government.