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So tweets are "toots" in Mastodon. Could it be that extinct mastodons grunted or growled instead of tooting? I would rather bark, bleat, caw, croak, howl, qua
by panarky 8y ago
So tweets are "toots" in Mastodon.
Could it be that extinct mastodons grunted or growled instead of tooting?
I would rather bark, bleat, caw, croak, howl, quack or screech.
Toot? Nah.
Too many associations with musical fruits.
- beat 8y agoI tried to grunt in Mastodon and accidentally recompiled it.
- jordigh 8y agoStarting fights with other users is known as "tusking". Having a wildly popular toot get boosted all over the place is "going woolly". A server going down for good is an "extinction event". https://mastodon.social/@nolan/1522550 https://mastodon.social/@nolan/1522550 I think it's all very cute.
- rainbowmverse 8y agoYou could YIFF! on yiff.life, if you prefer. A lot of instances change the verb.
- egypturnash 8y agoIt's open source. You can change this to say whatever you want if you're willing to run it yourself, or you can find a place that's changed it to something you think sounds better than "toot".
- chooseaname 8y agoThe mammoth on The Flintstones had a human voice.
- WorldMaker 8y ago> Could it be that extinct mastodons grunted or growled instead of tooting? We can presume Mastodons shared many characteristics with modern day Elephants, which from zoo anecdotes seem capable of grunting, growling, and (both types of) tooting, to communicate different things.