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Mastodon needs to at very least change its terminology if it ever wants to be taken seriously. As funny as it is for people to be "tooting" out whatever happens

Mastodon needs to at very least change its terminology if it ever wants to be taken seriously. As funny as it is for people to be "tooting" out whatever happens to be in their head in that very moment no one wants to be known as a "tooter" who "toots" frequently.

nl 4y ago
Is there any difference between tooting and tweeting really?
- nextlevelwizard 4y ago
  Other than that "tweeting" is what birds do and "tooting" is term for farting and slang for snorting cocaine? Well, isnt that enough? Whenever I hear someone "tooted" on Mastodon I just imagine them farting while high on cocaine.
- omeid2 4y ago
  Yes. "toot" sounds far less refined than "tweet". Is it completely subjective? Yes, but if enough people think so, "it is so".
whatshisface 4y ago
That's a good thing, some of the worst cultures on Twitter are based around taking it too seriously...
- nextlevelwizard 4y ago
  If you just want to communicate with your friends why not use some IM service like Discord or IRC?
esskay 4y ago
Tooting aside (it's a silly enough term as it is) Mastedons never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person. "It's a decentralized social platform where you sign up to individual..." Yeah they're already asleep. The average person doesn't give a damn about that, and they sure as hell arent about to jump through a poor UI experience and extremely badly worded terminology to sign up to it.
- jrm4 3y ago
  "It's Twitter, but set up like email where you have multiple servers, but they can all talk to each other" That wasn't very hard at all.
  - s3krit 3y ago
    'what's a server?'
    - notjulianjaynes 3y ago
      Is this actually a problem? I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of people who use the internet have a good enough idea of what a server is that even if they're dead wrong about how one works it isn't terminology that would be confusing to them.
      - dmonitor 3y ago
        Vast vast majority don't even know what their router is, let alone a server.
    - jrm4 3y ago
      The internet (or cloud, if you prefer, mostly the same thing) is just a bunch of computers connected to each other. "Servers" are the big ones in the middle that handle stuff like email and youtube videos this is not THAT hard yall
- Shared404 3y ago
  > Mastedons never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person. Email's never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person. "It's a decentralized communication platform where you sign up to individual..."
dewey 4y ago
This was already changed two years ago: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080
- nextlevelwizard 4y ago
  >In this PR, the publish button still says "Toot!" but it's worth thinking about as well.
  - dewey 4y ago
    This is one of many PRs that removed the references to "toot" over the years.

nl 4y ago

Is there any difference between tooting and tweeting really?

nextlevelwizard 4y ago
Other than that "tweeting" is what birds do and "tooting" is term for farting and slang for snorting cocaine? Well, isnt that enough? Whenever I hear someone "tooted" on Mastodon I just imagine them farting while high on cocaine.
omeid2 4y ago
Yes. "toot" sounds far less refined than "tweet". Is it completely subjective? Yes, but if enough people think so, "it is so".

whatshisface 4y ago

That's a good thing, some of the worst cultures on Twitter are based around taking it too seriously...

nextlevelwizard 4y ago
If you just want to communicate with your friends why not use some IM service like Discord or IRC?

esskay 4y ago

Tooting aside (it's a silly enough term as it is) Mastedons never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person. "It's a decentralized social platform where you sign up to individual..." Yeah they're already asleep. The average person doesn't give a damn about that, and they sure as hell arent about to jump through a poor UI experience and extremely badly worded terminology to sign up to it.

jrm4 3y ago
"It's Twitter, but set up like email where you have multiple servers, but they can all talk to each other" That wasn't very hard at all.
- s3krit 3y ago
  'what's a server?'
  - notjulianjaynes 3y ago
    Is this actually a problem? I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of people who use the internet have a good enough idea of what a server is that even if they're dead wrong about how one works it isn't terminology that would be confusing to them.
    - dmonitor 3y ago
      Vast vast majority don't even know what their router is, let alone a server.
  - jrm4 3y ago
    The internet (or cloud, if you prefer, mostly the same thing) is just a bunch of computers connected to each other. "Servers" are the big ones in the middle that handle stuff like email and youtube videos this is not THAT hard yall
Shared404 3y ago
> Mastedons never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person. Email's never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person. "It's a decentralized communication platform where you sign up to individual..."

dewey 4y ago

This was already changed two years ago: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080

nextlevelwizard 4y ago
>In this PR, the publish button still says "Toot!" but it's worth thinking about as well.
- dewey 4y ago
  This is one of many PRs that removed the references to "toot" over the years.