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!
One thing the Sysadmin community no longer needs to know about:
My job is horrible, I commute 6 hours each way to my office in the cellar. My boss is useless a wet blanket who’s only working muscle is his tongue which he uses to kiss the backside of the attention-seeking, sociopath CEO who won’t spend any money because our Windows NT4 infra is “as good as it gets”. Being a Sysadmin sucks! What should I do?
If the most common phrase here is “brush up your CV” we have a problem.
Woohoo, found my people!
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!
More posts to come (from me, at least) starting later in the week. In the meantime, post what you want to discuss with the community! 👍
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) :-)
Let’s continue where we left off!
Is there an old.reddit.com version of Lemmy? asking for a friend :-|
On jerboa, you can change the view to list view and that helps a ton.
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.
Less Windows content than reddit please.
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
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.
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.
Good sources? Redhat?
If you have interesting read-worthy news articles, I’d encourage you to post them. I’ve been pursuing some Linux news sites but don’t know what’s of interest to everyone. Also, Lemmy is a community and I don’t intend to be a one-man show. 😁
For that we would need more non-Windows admins than Windows admins.
Good luck.
Looking forward to the Patch Tuesday megathreads.
Really? Patching Tuesdays are a PITA. Lol.
But seriously, I’m looking forward to creating a new home.
thank you for your service brether
/r/sysadmin and /r/networking lurker/rare poster here. Seems the networking community isnt active at all quite yet
I created the networking and juniper subs here but I’m just one person. I can’t get anyone to join them to post stuff.
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.
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 🤣
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.
Glad to see a familiar community on Lemmy!
Thank you! Really hoping this takes off
Thanks for providing an alternative to the big reddit machine.
