Absolutely this. I'm cheap AF and continued to do this, but Samsung has stopped these incentives so now I'm "stuck" on my s21 ultra.
I use quotes because it's an awesome phone and 2 years later it's still crushing everything I throw at it so I have no qualms with hanging onto it.
The difference is that when you buy a vps you aren't handing over all your access creds to random developers.
And "harming lemmy" may be an intent that sparks a DDoS but there are other intentions that should make users wary. Harvesting creds of people who reuse passwords across accounts is an easy example that could have more serious implications to the individual user.
I think it would actually be pretty cool if somehow you could link configured subreddits that people have saved or subscribed to into a search for Lemmy communities.
Obviously we want to minimize time that distracts you from the Lemmy version, but I do think it would help people pivot into Lemmy communities away from their favorite subreddits.
No nested SQL queries allowed.
Edit: it was for a built in query language to populate dashboards (think Jira JQL meets Domo).
I had some inefficient SQL queries that meant we had to put some guardrails around user input so others didn't take down prod like I did