Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@squirrel you're definitely not

what was the problem in the end?

@noelle ah yeah, that'd make it awkward to figure stuff out

@noelle I'll take that to mean you figured something out

@squirrel take five minutes, grab a cup of tea/coffee, just step away from it for a little while

That'll help more than anything else right now

@squirrel sorry to be the bearer of more bad news, but now if I click on someone's name then all the usual stuff shows in the third panel (bio, then posts) but it pops up a 500 error and doesn't display following/you are followed by

@squirrel just so I understand the problem, all the ruby code is as it should be right?

and both the "follows" and "follow_requests" tables have a column called "show_reblogs" which is non-nullable and default true right?

@squirrel @InspectorCaracal oh! I thought the ruby thought they were there but they weren't in the db

@squirrel @InspectorCaracal oh yeah, I mean go in to the database to do it manually

@InspectorCaracal @squirrel for that commit it just added a column to two tables so you might be able to just add those manually

@squirrel no idea if that helps, but that's probably where I'd start looking if I knew what I was doing

@squirrel I've been having a look (despite not knowing Ruby) to see if I could find anything obvious

There's something in app/models/follow_request.rb than requests reblogs

also in app/controllers/api/v1/accounts_controller.rb

Those files asking for reblogs was added 25 days ago in this commit https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commit/eeaec39888f66bf312ac9a4c58f315ffd8f874f2

@squirrel spooooooopy!

Knew we should have called in that exorcist

@squirrel also doesn't help that the only time anyone ever uses the word "sleigh" is in reference to santa's sleigh

For any other vehicle pulled by animals and carrying people and/or cargo over snow it's a sledge

@squirrel as a native English speaker, both of those words sound exactly the same

@astro @unascribed@cybre.space true, although on the upside this might stop them from buying the rest of the IoT garbage as well

@astro @unascribed@cybre.space it may not be worse than that stuff, but it's yet another surveillance tool

If they want to spy on you, they'll spy on you, but there's no sense in giving them more ways of doing that

I got around to turning on "autoplay .gifs" and now the coyote is rotating and the maple is blinking and blushing

I should have turned this on ages ago