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0 pointspangolinplayer4y ago0 comments

Post is called a toot? Tf

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The 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

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...

Kye4y ago

Long story short: Eugen didn't know toot had another meaning in some places. Toot is the sound a mastodon makes.

FalconSensei4y ago

I only discovered the other meaning on the post they made about the renaming. For me it always was mastodon and trumpet sound

micromacrofoot4y ago

They 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.

wrycoder4y ago

Boo

outside12344y ago

"Truth in advertising"

warning264y ago

Yup -- 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.

er4hn4y ago

I'd argue that is a benefit. Imagine if people took Twitter and the Twitverse less seriously

infogulch4y ago

Imagine 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.

lmm4y ago

It'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.

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