Is there an IT professional Lemmy instance?

electromage@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 114 points –

I'm looking for a good instance to join for work use - specifically something with communities focused on cybersecurity, systems engineering, programming, devops, etc. No NSFW stuff, world news, entertainment.

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I'm an IT professional but I find most IT communities to be full insufferable people and full of useless and irrelevant information on obscure systems and practices that don't apply to the average IT job which is sys admining windows/linux/mac.

Would love a community that was chill and not full of people trying to one up one another about how amazing they are or how hardcore their lab is.

I appreciated the programmerhumor, sysadmin, and talesfromtechsupport subreddits for that vibe. I haven’t found equivalents here yet unfortunately.

I appreciated [...] sysadmin

Do we already have r/brandnewsentence over here?

Then you might like the homelab/self-host communities.

No, i don't. I don't have a home lab or a self host. I have a mac laptop at home and nothing else.

my job is at my job. I don't bring it home.

You asked for some chill communities for discussing IT stuff. As you already mentioned, chill communities are hard to come by. Don't diss it so readily just because you don't have a homelab or self-host, plenty of people in those communities aren't either but they're still there to enjoy the discussion.

There cybersecurity part would be covered by infosec.pub. Devops and similar communities are more fragmented however.

It looks like there are a few there I'll want to join.

I'm on the Mastodon instance of that guy, infosec.social. can recommend so far.

How about infosec.pub?

I was gonna say this. I think this is the most popular one.

  • 🥉 infosec.pub MAU: 387
  • 🥈 discuss.tchncs.de MAU: 849
  • 🥇 programming.dev MAU: 1217

MAU = monthly active users

I feel like many IT pros are the ones hosting instances themselves, whether popular or personal. I host two, both of which are open, but I'm not exactly advertising or doing any branding really.

What are you running them on?

My personal home Kubernetes cluster plus the cloudflare free tier. For now. Definitely want to keep them on my cluster as I've got everything just right including automatic backups etc, plus it's paid for, but I guess we'll see how cloudflare works out.

I'm on the fence about this kind of question - it's not open so it breaks rule #1. However, I got pushback last time I removed something similar. What's your preference on this kind of post?

I prefer not to see them because people can use the search tools to find communities and instances.

I think they should be removed. I thought asklemmy was the equivalent to askreddit. I think this would be more fit to !general@lemmy.world or !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I wouldn't call it an exact equivalent - we can make it what we want. I also didn't frequent askreddit so don't have a clear example.

I'd say go ahead and make "not for questions about lemmy" a hard and fast rule, and link to some subs that might be better for that (https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity, https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support). These aren't open-ended questions. I'd rather this be for questions that will prompt interesting responses based on people's opinions and experiences.

It doesn't really seem to fit the spirit of the community. However it's still so small I don't really mind. That said these choices impact the future culture

I feel like it's rather open, but I see your point. Having re-read the rules it's likely breaking rule #3 as well.

I know I can search for instances, but then all I have to go by are the name of the instance, and what the person running it thinks it is. I wanted to get some real feedback about how people are actually using them.

It seems from the upvote ratio, people generally appreciate that I posted the question here.

It seems from the upvote ratio, people generally appreciate that I posted the question here.

Not saying I disagree necessarily, but I just want to point out many people interact from their feed without even noticing what community it's on.

People are helpful here so posts don't usually get ignored. With that said, each community should have the space to be what it wants to be. These comments are a clear signal that we want to go with open discussion questions.

Thanks for the input, all. We have a number of tips for finding communities and support in the sidebar. I'll remove these kinds of posts from now on so that we can focus on discussing interesting, open questions.

  • 🥉 infosec.pub MAU: 387
  • 🥈 discuss.tchncs.de MAU: 849
  • 🥇 programming.dev MAU: 1217

MAU = monthly active users