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  • As a backend engineer who has experience with frontend I’ve learned it’s two things

    From an engineer’s point of view, if they call themselves a full stack engineer they’re usually a front end dev who have written a few apis in the past. No shame, but I’ve seen way too many people say they’re backend without fully understanding what being a backend engineer really is in terms of scale, speed, and flexibility.

    From q businesses point a view, a full stack engineer is a role they made up that means “we expect an expert in all areas but want to pay a lower rate”.

    Both areas need experts. I’d say I’m an expert in backend. I think it’s impossible to be an expert in everything, and companies who want “full stacks” should expect jack of all trades master of none, and will attract literally any engineer, because what the hell is full stack.

    I’ve probably pissed off a lot of fellow engineers, but I guess what I’m trying to say is be a master of your domain. Learn how frontend and backend work, but don’t try to be an expert in everything. It’s good to specialize. When you’re asked if you are a full stack engineer it’s perfectly fine to say “I have experience in the full stack, my expertise is on the backend, but I can do react when needed”



  • That’s not the point I was making. If you’re an instance owner then yes you should abide by the laws, but most are individuals, and I’ll say I had to learn a lot hosting my own. I try to be in full compliance, but I say try because you’re asking one guy who knows how to run a server legal questions. If someone asked me to delete it I would, but you’re dealing with thousands of server owners. I wouldn’t bet that everyone will follow your request.

    As for laws, well, no also. Say a 3 letter agency in the US sets up a server listening to you. They’re not in the EU at all. You send a gdpr takedown request. The listening server can legally ignore this. You sent them data, it’s outside of the jurisdiction of the gdpr, they don’t host anything. So no. I get your sentiment, but you’re quite literally blasting comments out to everyone who will listen, this is not a private space, this is as open as it gets.

    You have a very “this is the way it should work” thought process, but I’m here telling you that’s in theory only. In practice anyone will be listening to anything, and you should not treat Lemmy or the fediverse as private. If you want private, use matrix.