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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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 (lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity, 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.
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.
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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