programming.dev is probably what you're looking for
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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I think you're right! Good collection of communities.
There cybersecurity part would be covered by infosec.pub. Devops and similar communities are more fragmented however.
Agreed.
I'm on the Mastodon instance of that guy, infosec.social. can recommend so far.
It looks like there are a few there I'll want to join.
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.
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.
infosec.pub maybe
programming.dev
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.
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.
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 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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programming.devMAU: 1217
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