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It would be nice if they also didn’t call tweets “toots”. It’s a minor thing and I recognize this is a me problem but I can’t help but think of verbal flatulenc
by synu 4y ago
It would be nice if they also didn’t call tweets “toots”. It’s a minor thing and I recognize this is a me problem but I can’t help but think of verbal flatulence when I hear it.
- drngdds 4y agoInterpreted that way, it accurately describes the quality of the average post on any microblogging platform
- jayelbe 4y agoI really like it, as a fun reminder not to take social media all too seriously. Plus a 'toot' is definitely a sound you can imagine an elephant making.
- dorkwood 4y agoIt's not a you problem. Many people have an issue with this.
- ldjb 4y ago"Toots" were renamed to "posts" in April 2021. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080
- synu 4y agoOh, nice! And for the reasons that bothered me.. so maybe it wasn’t just me.
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- rhn_mk1 4y agoI wish we collectively chilled out about how insignificant things are named.
- dekken_ 4y agoI find it tells me more about the person complaining than the thing they're complaining about
- synu 4y agoHonestly I think for me it goes back to the “beans beans the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot” song but if you were able to diagnose some deep seated personality defect on my part instead based on my reaction I would love to learn more. :)
- smt88 4y agoI have been struggling to get friends and family onto Signal, which is a very vanilla application by most standards. If I'd tried to move them from Twitter/whatever to Mastodon and had to explain what a "toot" is, it would've made it that much harder. Luckily toots are no longer the word Mastodon uses, so it's now irrelevant.
- choward 4y agoAs bad as "toot" was, I still think it's better than "truth".
- robin_reala 4y agoOwned by a guy called Trump, which gets some sniggers in en-GB.
- OJFord 4y agoVouching for this (it was dead) as a fellow Briton, and commenting to explain: 'to trump' has the same meaning as 'to toot' in the complaints here - i.e. 'to fart'. I.e. this isn't really partisan commentary or anything to flag - it's just amusing that a sort of competitor to the platform being criticised for calling its posts a slang term for farting is owned by someone whose name happens to be another one. (And to be really clear, that slang term isn't somehow named for Trump, it predates him. Or certainly his international prominence anyway.)
- Vaslo 4y agoI don’t know about that, my kids don’t run around the house saying “I just truthed”
- fao_ 4y agoI love that feature, if it prevents a number of hackernews from posting on or joining fedi, it's working as intended imo