Calling all /r/sysadmin reddit refugees!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1163202

I setup 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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I hope to see this community take off and take precedence over the one on lemmy.ml. I have been disappointed the past couple of days because most of the IT related subs seemed to be there and they have only been intermittently available and they seem to be having some trouble with federating their content to other instances. It's not their fault, they are clearly being hugged much too tightly.
Also I know its just the nature of things to have competing subs, even on Reddit it happened. But I'd prefer not to have a split-brain situation with a sysadmin community nor do I want to be forced in to cross posting everything to both communities to increase my chances of engagement.
- I share your sentiment at this point. I saw a thread where the one Lemmy dev / admin was talking about how they will not use Cloudflare or other major CDNs for lemmy.ml, and that they host on some minor provider because of privacy concerns. They said they were focusing on optimizing the Lemmy code instead to make it more efficient.
  While I understand that and those concerns aren't wrong, and certainly the code should always be written to be more efficient... at some point it's going to meet the reality of millions of ex-reddit users hitting them, and they seem wholly unprepared for that. /u/Ruud seems to know what they're doing with lemmy.world and building it to be able to scale.
  Even though I've created the /c/Sysadmin sub on a handful of the larger Lemmy servers now, I'm thinking that lemmy.world will be my main going forward.
- (thinking about the dual-communities) I guess that's part of the growing pains we're seeing and will probably endure for some time.
  I'm all about merging however, but perhaps the community culture needs time to develop (or does that just make it harder to merge?). I gather the .ml instance was less windows inclined and rather happy to see that left behind in /r/... Can't blame them, but that's squarely where I sit, unfortunately :)

Who else here was a refugee from Digg to Reddit?
I see a lot of parallels with the path that Reddit is going down that reminds me of the fall of Digg. I see the Reddit API backlash basically being the same as the backlash that Digg v4 got from community members.

Glad this is here! /r/sysadmin is super useful and hopefully we can create a similar community here.
@[email protected] if you need more mods, I'd be happy to help!

Thanks @[email protected] for getting this going. I have high hopes 😊 if you need any mod support, please let me know.

Howdy! I actually left /r/sysadmin a long time ago because I found that 90% of posts were just salty IT techs bitching about dumb end users. While I definitely understand the frustration after 15 years in IT, I always hoped for a slightly more constructive community. Hopefully this can be that place!
- 100% agree! It's ok to love your job. I know I do at least...

Thank you for creating this community and taking on mod responsibilities.
/r/sysadmin was one of the reasons I got back to reddit in the first place and I hope it does the same for others here in the fediverse.

Hell yeah! Glad to see this be rebuilt in the fediverse, I’m also a Reddit refugee and while I’ll missy cranky sysadmin rants… I’m not going back to Reddit

Im done with reddit! Will try and be more active here posting info and answering questions.

Awesome, happy to find a new home :)

Nice! It feels like home.

Howdy. Not a sysadmin yet, but definitely a reddit refugee. Currently taking a break from changing passwords and running gpupdate to keep exploring this glorious neck of the interwebs

You rang?

Hey, I was wondering what are the rules regarding crossposting from /r/sysadmin? Or is only "original" content allowed?
- Sure, crosspost away. As long as we're not getting too many duplicate posts within /c/sysadmin about the same topic, it doesn't matter much the source.

Without RiF, Reddit has managed to push me away. I'm here via WefWef on Android. Thank you.
- I keep seeing people talk about wefwef but I dont see it in the play store. Do you have to install it separately? I know I can get it from their website but it feels a bit sketch that I dont see it in the play store.
  
  It’s a progressive web app. The web app is all there is.

Glad to be here! (an ex 11-year Reditor)

Just subscribed, came here for the same reasons! Hoping this place can take off, because main reason I was going to give Reddit a single of iota of traffic going forward was for the Mega Patch Tuesday Threads, those are so insanely helpful that they are the first place I go before patching now. Hopefully we'll some going in here as well, maybe our lord and savior JoshTaco will grace us with their presence as well 🤞 🚬
Cheers!

yeeey

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