Is there an IT professional Lemmy instance?

3 years ago by electromage to c/asklemmy

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.

yads 84 points 3 years ago

programming.dev is probably what you're looking for

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wyrmroot 16 points 3 years ago

Yes, join us!

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abbadon420 6 points 3 years ago

One of us, one of us.

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electromage 1 point 3 years ago

I think you're right! Good collection of communities.

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Turkey_Titty_city 26 points 3 years ago

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.

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moistclump 13 points 3 years ago

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

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zettajon 6 points 3 years ago

You can find programmerhumor at: !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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fuzzzerd 7 points 3 years ago

I believe programming.dev is the main instance for all programming related communities that left reddit.

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twei 6 points 3 years ago

I appreciated [...] sysadmin

Do we already have r/brandnewsentence over here?

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Madbrad200 3 points 3 years ago

!sysadmin@lemmy.world

!programmer_humor@programming.dev

!programminghumor@lemmy.world

!programmerhumor@lemmy.world

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redcalcium 2 points 3 years ago

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

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Turkey_Titty_city 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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redcalcium 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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Jarmer 22 points 3 years ago

https://tchncs.de/ has all sorts of fediverse servers and seems to be very techy / dev oriented.

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acidmnky 14 points 3 years ago

How about infosec.pub?

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spacedancer 6 points 3 years ago

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starman 1 point 3 years ago

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

MAU = monthly active users

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andrew 9 points 3 years ago

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.

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srwax 1 point 3 years ago

What are you running them on?

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andrew 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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starman 9 points 3 years ago

programming.dev

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hsl 8 points 3 years ago

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?

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hsl 8 points 3 years ago

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

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TurnItOff_OnAgain 9 points 3 years ago

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

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hsl 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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jayknight 9 points 3 years ago

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.

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can 3 points 3 years ago

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

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electromage 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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can 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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hsl -1 points 3 years ago

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.

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hsl -1 points 3 years ago

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.

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cc8 7 points 3 years ago

infosec.pub maybe

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t0fr 5 points 3 years ago

https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great resource to find instances and communities

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starman 5 points 3 years ago

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

MAU = monthly active users

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