I’ve had some feedback today that Decronym is “spamming” unrelated acronym definitions into threads that don’t need them. Unfortunately, details of which acronyms are superfluous wasn’t forthcoming, so:

From this list, which acronyms do you guys think can be removed as unnecessary to explain?

http://decronym.xyz/acronyms/selfhosted@lemmy_world

  • DecronymBEnglish
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    37 minutes ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    CF CloudFlare
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
    NAT Network Address Translation
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    a11y A(ccessibilit)y
    i18n I(nternationalizatio)n
    l10n L(ocalizatio)n

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