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

Edited to add: There’ve been instances of the bot “finding” acronyms that aren’t mentioned in the thread, and speculation that vibecoding is at fault. The real answer, I think, is simpler.

Decronym uses a local Lemmy instance, and polls the database directly for new comments. Last time I tried to upgrade Lemmy, it went so badly I had to wipe the server and start over from a fresh Debian; threads on the fresh instance started from ID 1 again.

But Decronym’s list of detected acronyms wasn’t wiped, so it’s been pointing at the wrong thread IDs this whole time.

I’ve now wiped the threads and detected acronyms for this comm, and the bot should behave more sensibly.

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    19 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”?