Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

When I open a ticket with title
"Please Install x number of servers in Rack X"

Please understand I'm baffled with two separate people call me with in 2 minutes of each other to ask which rack I would like the systems installed in.

@mawr @Gargron
Part 3

For example there is now mountains on content written on the manipulation of facebook, twitter and even reddit to influence the 2016 election cycle.
Creating a feature that opens Mastodon up to the same level of discourse manipulation seems irresponsible especially without analyzing why said feature exists on other platforms and how it has been used and abused on similar platforms.
I'd hate to see Masto end up like Twitter.

@mawr @Gargron
Part 2

Without some serious attention from admins to ensure each instance follows the same guide lines it can easily turn into a tool to manipulate and control discourse.

We have ample evidence of discourse manipulation on social media, so concerns about "trending topics" being abused are not unfounded. Wow.. I did not realize I was suddenly super passion about this. I've re-written this like 3 or 4 times to try squeezing under the character limit.

@mawr @Gargron
I get that for mastodon could not be used for overt data gathering. Until someone created a way to aggregate that data (probably creating a bunch of accounts on difference instances and scraping trending topics)

Providing active band wagons to jump on on the other hand definitely opens the feature up to wide scale manipulation and abuse.

Part 1

@mawr That is unfortunate. I personally have hard time seeing what purpose "trending topics" would serve on a platform like Mastodon. I'd probably need to do some more research but my gut feeling is that they are primarily a big data gathering, information and awareness manipulation tool. Especially with how they are thoroughly manipulated and abused on other social media platforms.

@mawr wow.. Gargon's posts were thoroughly unpleasant to read and reeked of "I do what I want because I can so we are doing this even though lots of people are giving good reasons not to implement this feature or include reasonable ways to disable it."

Ick. That is a terrible attitude to have for an open source project..

Oh hey the friday night while storm dragon is oncall datacenter explosions are all done and fixed... 3 hours after they started..

@IrisKalmia

It was fairly accurate... yes.

@IrisKalmia Noooooo comment..

@mawr I was wondering about that... last update to high serria turned that on and I had a bunch of issues until I turned it off... all similar to this.

@vahnj

Random question, since signups are now restricted is there any sort of process in place for changing an a username/address (not sure of the correct terminology for masto)

@KinkyKobolds

Hmmm... I know several kobolds that were formerly dragons. You are probably onto something there.

1.5 hours of sleep... thank you so much pager duty... and high of 91.

Today is looking great./s

bleh pager gods are appeased for now. I am going to try to get some more sleep before it is too hot

Too damn warm... High was 67 yesterday today it is 81... :(

@IrisKalmia yeah, moderately grumpy but it is totally my fault since I didn't even think about it being Memorial day until seeing it come up on Monday. I was like fuuuuuck I have a ton of pto 4 day weekend sounds nice go look at pto calendar... oh. Well shit! Arghhh

Obviously I'm just going to 'work from home' but not really today unless shit breaks during my pager duty window.

This sucks... I forgot this weekend was a holiday weekend. I am the only person on my team that didn't request today off... and I'm oncall next week.. including the holiday.

Capitalism sucks... I really want to call in sick today after getting 3 hours of sleep... I have the pto but I have a ton of work to do and would probably still have to cover my daily oncall period from 2-8pm anyway.

@KinkyKobolds Kobolds definitely need lots of pets. It helps avert the explosions.

@KinkyKobolds I shall keep that in mind! My kobold keeps insisting she is not a minion.. even though she is totally way shorter... and looks pretty minion-like... and this art is her fault.