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
    20·
    5 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.

  • Railing5132@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 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.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

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

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      5 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.

  • kevin2107@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 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
        1·
        5 months ago

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

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    5 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