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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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Please point me to the piss themed social media. I’ve got lots of piss for other people to piss on.
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How is it any more stupid than a tweet? That was pretty mass marketable, I would say.
Because tweet never had any negative connotations before Twitter took it on. It's the sound a bird makes. Toot is slang for farting which doesn't have the greatest associations. It's also like skeet for blue sky. I get why the owners wouldn't want a word that has a whole and common on their platform community that knows that word as slang for ejaculation.
I'm four years old and I think it's funny. Also, "skeet" as slang for "blue sky"? I love it, you're a visionary, how do we make this happen?
All of that nonsense is hilarious. Toot and skeet sound absolutely ridiculous. At least it’s amusing seeing people trying to make fetch happen.
Yeah, I do think it needs to be changed, though I don't know to what. I don't personally mind it too much, but I want Mastodon to succeed, and I just can't picture legitimately telling people in a serious conversation about a toot I just tooted.