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An account migration feature is getting closer. An update earlier this month added the possibility to download a dump of all your toots, boosts, and likes.

• bscphil 9y ago
  OT: It doesn't bother me personally, but I'll never understand why they added an unnecessary barrier to entry like that. Not many serious people are going to join a platform that risks them getting quoted in the press as "X tooted that ...". I guess it was supposed to be a funny parody of twitter?
  • gkya 9y ago
    I'm not sold on "tweet" either. It sounds childish and weird. I'd rather have "X posted on Twitter/Mastodon/whatnot where he said ...".
    • saurik 9y ago
      But tweet was't an existing word.
      • ChristianBundy 9y ago
        tweet (n): the chirp of a small or young bird
        • saurik 9y ago
          Woah. Huh. I totally managed to never notice that. FWIW, the place I was going was "the only place where toot normally comes up as a word is when people talk about the sound of a fart or in the phrase 'to toot your own horn', which is way too close to home".
          • saurik 9y ago
            (And "tweet" still does not feel like "a word" in the way that "toot" does. I would want to see a survey done, as a random dictionary is not how you define if a word exists, to the extent to which a word can exist at all.)
            • Terretta 9y ago
              Tweet dates to 1851, myriad examples: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 Chaucer came up with twitter: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/chaucer-coined-twitter/322107/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/ch... Craig Hockenberry applied the one to the other: http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/
  • deleted 9y ago
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  • kstrauser 9y ago
    It's exactly like email in this way. They could quote bscphil@evildomain.email, too.