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!

  • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Andreas@feddit.dk
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • kalipike@lemmy.one
    3·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • Ace417@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

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

    • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.mlOPM
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • kalipike@lemmy.one
        3·
        1 year ago

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

        Isn’t that the truth, haha

      • Ace417@beehaw.org
        0·
        1 year ago

        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 🤣

        • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.mlOPM
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • krash@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    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) :-)

    • krolden@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

      • itchy_lizard@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.mlOPM
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Coffee Water@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.mlOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

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

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • ccunix@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Matt@netmonkey.tech
      1·
      1 year ago

      LOL

      I admit that I haven’t spent time in /r/sysadmin a lot these past few years, but it always did seem full of people whining about their jobs.