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People know toot means fart, right?

• ColinWright 10y ago
  That's very much regional slang. And I'm pretty sure people know it - software is full of immature, juvenile, and puerile jokes, references, and people. My approach is just to ignore the muffled giggles and treat it all with a straight face.
  • corobo 10y ago
    Oh yeah I get that, probably doesn't help people convert if you have to say you're tooting at people, it sounds ridiculous!
    • ColinWright 10y ago
      Different instances have different terms for things, some more sensible, some less so. On cybre.space you don't "toot", you "Ping!", and there's another instance where you "Awoo". Yes, the terminology doesn't help, but used to be stupid to say that you would "tweet" something.
      • corobo 10y ago
        Tweet at least made sense in context, twitter is all bird branded and a single tweet is one message of many, just like a single bird tweet is one of many that make up bird songs/calls Having different terminology per server seems even worse than having a unified word that makes out you're farting information at people. "Hey I'm going to awoo you the link" "you what?", where the second person is used to it being referred to as something else
        • moron4hire 10y ago
          This is the problem with Mastodon, et. al. They're too caught up in the window dressings.