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.
Just get rid of this bot altogether. People can just copy paste the stuff that they don’t know into a search engine.
A random comment by a bot - that 80% of the viewers don’t even need and read - is neither good visible nor helpful.