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

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I’ve blocked the bot because I find it’s more annoying that useful (I’m not complaining - just giving feedback).

    That said, IMHO from that list you should remove the entries that:

    • are ambiguous (eg: HA has 2 entirely different meanings in your list)
    • have become words on their own (eg. DNS, HTTP, etc…): nobody cares what these expand to (think, NASA) and also knowing what these expand to doesn’t help at all (if you tell me that HTTP means “hyper-text markup protocol” will I not have to go read wikipedia anyways to understand what it is?)
    • are often not used according to your definition (eg. IP is more often used to refer to an IP address rather than to the protocol) - of course you may want to amend the definitions instead

    Also, you should keep the acronym expansion (“RAID” => “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”) from any comment you may want to add (“for mass storage”) and - since you are at it - provide relevant links to wikipedia articles and/or other resources.

    PS: since a lot of entries in the list are not even acronyms… maybe you should consider renaming the bot to something related to “abbreviations” or “glossary”?