So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and discussion there are fun to read.

With that being said, I think we can work to grow this community a bit. From what I can tell this community is home to a lot of quick posting. I am responsible somewhat as I have posted a bunch of articles. However, I am going to make a point to do longer write ups and I think it would be good we posted some stories. Additionally, I would be more than happy to help setup automatic posting for patch Tuesdays and similar scheduled posts.

As far as growth goes, I think we need to get the word out. A lot of people just do not know that Lemmy is a thing. If we can create some more meaningful posts and get some people to come over here from other platforms then I think this community will grow. I also know that mastodon is a pretty big platform so if we can get some people to engage from mastodon it will help as well.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
    257·
    7 months ago

    Please for the love of God do not become the Internet door to door preacher trying to convert. It’s obnoxious and a lost cause.

    While this place is run by tankies and filled with 30 Linux thigh high photos you will never have a large community here.

  • kevin2107@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 months ago

    Good. I can’t stand the insane communities on Reddit. It’s full of clickbait and grifters. There’s small communities are what the Internet is about. We should be happy.

      • Kiernian@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Except for the #reddit-sysadmin IRC channel. Gibby’s always shilling his “fart in a jar” NFT.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    213·
    7 months ago

    I disagree. Merge with techsupport or even technology. Critical mass needs to be natural.

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
      162·
      7 months ago

      Fully agree. I see this sentiment so often, “we gotta tell people from reddit how great it is here!” This might work with something like a meme community, but once it becomes a bit less mainstream you need people to make that decision themselves. It will look needy and annoying to try and “educate” them about how supposedly great it is here.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      4·
      7 months ago

      Yup I’ve thought about this recently and I think the big problem is people expect Reddit when Reddit evolved over time. Here you have hundreds of subs existing where the user base doesnt match the need for it.

      Use Canada as an example. I’m sure on Reddit Canada started first then as it grew the need for provinces and cities. Here we have Canada and I’m sure provinces and cities. Everyone should just be in Canada. When the user base grows it will naturally splinter to smaller like minded communities.

      We are trying to rebuild the wheel when the wheel is not needed.

    • Jarvis2323@programming.dev
      11·
      7 months ago

      I agree with your disagreement. One of the biggest mistakes was folks trying to create 1:1 analogs of every subreddit. A single big community can have a lot of varied interesting discussions. If it gets too big, folks can get together and start a separate sub topic community for whatever topic warrants it.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
        2·
        7 months ago

        I agree with this.

        Sometimes I’ve seen people complain about people using asklemmy for not askreddit style questions, but I actually think that’s ok and I’m in favor of that as it means more discussion, content, and visibility.

        Eventually asklemmy will reach “critical mass”, and split into more niche communities.

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    7 months ago

    Is the sysadmim reddit still used by people? Get them to switch on over. I don’t get why they haven’t already. Link this community in the sidebar on Reddit and pin a post saying we moved to Lemmy

  • Railing5132@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 months ago

    The absolute only thing I go back to reddit for is the patch Tuesday megathread. I do dearly wish that info was here so I could cut ties completely.