Hey Pub-folk of /c/cybersecurity! Wanted to get a quick pulse-check and collect some thoughts from the community here regarding their usage both current and future. I’ll
- Would anyone like to see weekly threads created for things like #mentorshipmonday? If so, let me know what kind of weekly threads you all would find useful/interesting.
- There are a few infosec/cyber-related communities that have popped up both here on infosec.pub and elsewhere (e.g. kbin.social, fedia.io, etc…). Some are more niche, while others similarly general as this community. What is everyone’s thoughts in terms of where they plan to spend their time? I want to be mindful of the fracturing and try to build something here that people find useful.
- Do you think the “threadiverse” (kbin, Lemmy, etc…) is a viable alternative to Reddit for you? (Assuming you were on reddit originally).
- If you have any other thoughts or suggestions for the community please share them here as well! Thanks!
- Yes, I think a lot of discussion in cybersecurity is the outcomes, but not enough is talked about underlying cause and the boring stuff like slow incremental improvement and doing the fundamentals. Some discussion on that would be great.
- I’m intending to watch the different spaces as they evolve, I’ve got a presence on fedio.io, here and the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance and I’m still watching Reddit blueteamsec (though not posting). I don’t mind some pluralism in the community, it’s a good thing, it just makes it a bit harder (but we should be wary of easy, that’s what commercial solutions will always drive but that doesn’t work out so well!)
- Yes, definitely.
- I think the big move from Twitter to infosec.exchange was a sign of how a community can thrive in a non-commercial space, and how the power lies with us, not the platform.
- Understood. I’m thinking a “What are you working on Wednesday” weekly thread. This could be used for people to sound off on cool niche things they are doing either on-the-job, or just side-learning.
- Yep, I too have a Fedia presence and assuming @Jerry@infosec.exchange can muscle his way through the various #kbin issues I think that instance has a bright future. As I said here, I think the multiple communities will be a strength as it was with Reddit, but even more so thanks to the additional capabilities of federation.
- Nice!
- Yep, the threadiverse/fediverse, w/e seems perfect for niche interest groups and maybe a little more challenging for larger interest groups (of which I would consider cybersecurity to be one of the latter). That said, we are (we as in those within the “IT” sphere) are always going to be good at adopting new technologies and helping them grow so it makes sense for us to have come here and found pretty quick success.
- Yup! A place for general conversations is good.
- I think this server will end up as one of the primary ones for this type of topic, so I’d expect to spend a lot of time here.
- Yes, or at least it will be. It’s got a long development road ahead of it but the bones are there and I’m confident that it will get sorted out and start experiencing the same sort of scalloped growth as Mastodon.
- LFG y’all, community go brrrrrr
I plan to spend time solely on this instance. I’m not interested in anything else in terms of anything involving both r/w or just w kind of access (for general questions requiring googling I still go to reddit). I don’t think there is a need in other instances if your interests are niche (like infosec). I’m more than satisfied with what I see here and I hope to keep it this way. It is a viable alternative to /r/netsec, but maybe as an aggregator, not a platform for feedback.
Brand new account here, so as a caveat, I may be way off base with some of these.
- I think this is a great idea, especially with the relatively low numbers of users here compared to reddit.
- I am just subscribing to all of them as I see them in the feed. Good chance I am gonna have to clean up an remove a bunch in a few weeks, but for now it seems to be working.
- I have deleted all my Reddit accounts, so I hope so!
- Nothing else from me, just keep being awesome everyone!
Hey, sharks good to see you here.
So,
- Hell yeah.
- Not sure, but this place seemed to be the most active, so I’ll be in the infosec.pub lemmy, I’d just change if something unexpected happens.
- Yes, slowly left before the shitfshow happened, most of my social media activity went to mastodon and never looked back, I think the threadiverse has the potential to be awesome.
On point two that’s a concern that I have regarding lemmy as a whole.
While there’s specific infosec related instances, there’s also going to be /c/infosec on an untold number of other lemmy instances, through what means can we establish a dominant location for conversations about cybersecurity?
I understand the question is outside the scope of what is currently being asked.
I think people will gravitate to / settle at a few main places in time but for now the scattering effect is in full force. What’s pretty not-understood yet by most is the capabilities these federated systems have with respect to easily following communities across multiple instances. For example, you can have an account here on infosec.pub but follow, consume and interact with posts/replies in other communities on other instances. Doing this natively is not particularly intuitive at this time but it (hopefully) won’t be long until updates to the native UX or third-party clients roll out that make this easier. Personally, I’m surprised no one has dropped a (good) Lemmy/Kbin client for iOS as there is definitely some money to make right now as people are all excited about the migration. I’m actually planning a guide of sorts which detail some less-understood functionality of Kbin/Lemmy and how us Reddit migrants / Fedi-interested folk can make the most of things here.
- I think that’s a great idea. If nothing else it should encourage people to engage more with the community.
- I plan to mostly spend my time here, as this instance is focused on security and that’s where i want to spend my time. I may subscribe elsewhere but i plan for this to be home base.
- I think it could be, if enough people use it and provide content. Content is king.
- I really want this to work! I would love to see federated services be able to reach a decent level of adoption.
