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Post is called a toot? Tf
by pangolinplayer 5y ago
Post is called a toot? Tf
- outside1234 5y ago"Truth in advertising"
- commoner 5y agoThe bird app (Twitter) calls them tweets, so the Mastodon service decided to call them toots. But, they did rename them to "posts" earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882318 I guess this isn't reflected in joinmastodon.org yet. Each instance can also choose to call posts whatever they want: https://www.reddit.com/r/mastodon_social/comments/9mhzu8/how_do_i_change_the_name_of_toots/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mastodon_social/comments/9mhzu8/how...
- warning26 5y agoYup -- either the devs don't know what that means in English slang, or they have a very juvenile sense of humor. Either way, that alone seems like it would present a pretty serious obstacle to anyone taking Mastodon remotely seriously.
- er4hn 5y agoI'd argue that is a benefit. Imagine if people took Twitter and the Twitverse less seriously
- lmm 5y agoIt's a benefit for society, but it's a big negative for the project. Twitter wouldn't be half as popular if it didn't stroke the egos of its users.
- infogulch 5y agoImagine a "Tweet to Fart" extension in the same vein as "Cloud to Butt". Lets see: "How could you refart that fart?! :angry_face: That's a terrible fart." Maybe I'm just juvenile but that might be funny enough to make twitter usable again. In other words, I don't really mind "toot". It casts the medium with a healthy perspective on itself.
- Kye 5y agoLong story short: Eugen didn't know toot had another meaning in some places. Toot is the sound a mastodon makes.
- FalconSensei 5y agoI only discovered the other meaning on the post they made about the renaming. For me it always was mastodon and trumpet sound
- micromacrofoot 5y agoThey recently stopped calling them toots (I liked the absurdity of it personally). Don't think that decision has made it through to the UI yet though.
- wrycoder 5y agoBoo