First a really obviously slanted questionnaire about mastodon, now opinion harvesting.

Someone is putting together a hit piece against Masto. Let me guess for one second who that is.

@Mainebot is it me? 😎

@maloki if it was anyone, it would be you yeah. Although it's not a particularly good angle, and you're just going to be feeding back to your own audience.

IF IT WAS
spinning logos with statistics from a too-small sample size and correlating that with some 'on the street' quotes has about as much gravity as a milk carton and a cardboard sign.

@Mainebot And I have a feeling that you wouldn't believe me if I said that isn't really my style, I prefer to do things out in the open?

Like, I made my own survey, right? I invited people who were interested to a meeting etc, and then I actually handed it off to those people interested, right?

It's all been very public, would I do that only to then be pulling strings behind the scenes? Seems like a lot of work when I need rest.

@maloki which is why I said 'let me guess' THEN said IF then generally explained that the approach I'm seeing is weak.

Of all the parties, you'd be the one to put this together. That's not really saying you are, definitely, that party. Just that if I were picking for dodgeball you'd be in the top 3.

@Mainebot Could it also not be a big conspiracy, but people genuinely just feeling some bubbling in the fediverse and wanting to check the temperature again, on their own?

@maloki I don't think it's conspiratorial, I think it's fact-gathering. I'd do it too, if I was looking for meaty sentiment to write with. And maybe it's me, jumping at ghosts. And maybe it's coincidence. And maybe despite the reality of it, I don't care enough to find out which is which.

But you called yourself out on this one. I didn't even need to Beetlejuice it.

@Mainebot It just showed up on my home TL and I thought it would be hilarious if you thought it was me.

Turns out it was hilarious 🤣