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!

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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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        Cool. I’m already not on lemmy.ml but I’ll keep that in mind if I need a different instance for any reason.

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      I mean, that is the upside and design intent of Lemmy. Be the change you want to see and stand up an IT focused Lemmy server. I don’t have the time or resources for that, but I can help by contributing to and moderating this community on what is currently the largest Lemmy server. Something tells me there will be a number of iterations before the Lemmy-verse settles on which servers become predominate.

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      I think this shouldn’t be that huge of a deal right now. We all have to start somewhere and I think that in the future there will be a way for us to migrate the community if we decide it is time to do so (maybe there is already, I am not really familiar with lemmy yet). I would support setting up an instance if we should decide to

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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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      I know there are many different front ends with which you can participate in Lemmy servers via the Fediverse, but haven’t gotten into it enough to make a recommendation. I’ve just began checking out https://kbin.social which might be closer to what you’re looking for?

      I agree that the Lemmy UI isn’t old reddit, but it’s enough unlike new reddit that I’m comfortable with it. Sure it’s got some ‘wasted’ / open space, but it works well.

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        Regarding lemmy.ml and its open space, I installed ‘1440p lemmy’ in Stylus and it made lemmy look so much nicer. Definitely worth a try!

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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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      For that we would need more non-Windows admins than Windows admins.

      Good luck.

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      I’d like to see whatever everyone wants to post about, and would also encourage you to be the change you want to see. I’m more into the Microsoft space myself but manage a handful of Linux servers (which I typically never have to bother with unless I’m standing another one up, and our team manages patching), though I’m not sure where good sources of news & updates would be for Linux information.

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    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!

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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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    Long time lurker, occasional r/sysadmin poster reporting in. Looking forward to more and more people moving over