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As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[-] voxov7@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Why aren't posts on mastodon called "toots"?

[-] psycrow@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

They were called toots and they fucking got rid of it? How uncreative can you be!?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

we can keep calling them toots

[-] Owlchemist@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I vote for calling them twats instead

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

People still use it all the time, often ironically.

I'll say that, fart jokes aside, I like just saying "posts" for everything because at this point, and in an interconnected set of networks where we're all using multiple services I've frankly outgrown the need to brand each bit of text I spew onto the Internet. It's the same reason I say "I'll text you" instead of "I'll whatsapp you" or whatever.

this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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