I setup (took over and spruced up, to be precise) this community specifically because of the time I’ve spent over the years browsing and relying on reddit.com/r/sysadmin for sources of information on tips/tricks, security exploits & patches, outages, and yes even the ranting about how our jobs all suck. (I like mine, for what it’s worth.)

Come on down, ask questions, post what the sysadmin community needs to know about, or head in to get either sympathy or chastisement about why you haven’t left your job yet. 🤣

Want to be a mod? Let me know!

  • Coffee Water@sh.itjust.works
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    Hi, I’m new to fediverse. Still a bit confusing, but I found this place with no issues. What do we call this sysadmin? Sublemmy?

    Hopefully this place gets more populated!

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      Officially Lemmy just calls them “communities”, but I figure that you can call them “subs” because you subscribe to them.

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    Thank you. Look forward to participate in this community (used to lurk on Reddit, but I feel much more motivated to contribute to the fediverse) :-)

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    /r/sysadmin and /r/networking lurker/rare poster here. Seems the networking community isnt active at all quite yet

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      Feel free to use this space for networking related posts as well. Not all of us have the fortune of being able to wear a single hat, and I know I’m just as interested in networking news & discussion as anything else in the IT space.

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        Not all of us have the fortune of being able to wear a single hat

        Isn’t that the truth, haha

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        Cool beans. There’s a TON of overlap I’ve noticed, but it is nice to have vendor specific focused discussions sometimes.

        That and there were a lot less employer rants on the networking sub 🤣

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          Yeah I figure no need to discriminate at this point, anyone in the field of administering any IT systems is welcome here. If Lemmy really takes off and sometime down the road there seems a need for it we might establish rules for what’s appropriate to post here vs. other tech subs, but I don’t see the need for that now.

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    Honestly, my two comments are

    1. Great to see a place that might take over for sysadmin

    2. Too bad it’s on lemmy.ml instead of an instance for sysadmin communities like sysadmin, networking, cybersec etc etc to distribute the load. Having lemmy.ml as a default for communities really hits their instance hard.

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      https://programming.dev/ looks like a good instance to migrate to. It’s tech-focused, small and not overwhelmed by signups, and the administrator has experience running a developer subreddit. Best to migrate early before too many users arrive here and something bad happens to lemmy.ml.

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      Omg yes for some time now it seems like r/sysadmin has been a shit ton of windows admins complaining about windows server or windows admins shilling windows server. Its gotten quite cringey.

      Microsoft really ruins everything

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        a lot of them aren’t even Microsoft sysadmins (eg talking about MS Exchange, Domain Controllers, etc) but are actually just IT helpdesk posting about dumb user tickets.

        Let’s have less of that here, please.

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    Excellent, thank you! Looking forward to participating. I spent a lot of time reading (and some time commenting as well) in the sysadmin subreddit. Very glad to see a presence here as well!

    I may have some future interest in moderating once I spent more than my first few hours on Lemmy and finish getting settled in, so to speak. Thanks for all the work you’re doing!

  • I’m a brand new reddit refugee who has also relied on r/sysadmin (and more niche technical subreddits) for over a decade. The only reason I feel like, professionally, I might be able to abandon reddit safely is because of ChatGPT. Thank you for being here when I got here!