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It always made more sense to call these tiny texts as "tweets" rather than "toots" (mastodon) or "status update" (generic) so it would be good having the right

It always made more sense to call these tiny texts as "tweets" rather than "toots" (mastodon) or "status update" (generic) so it would be good having the right to use that term as public domain. There have been worse names for this kind of updates in the past. At some point in time was common to "finger" someone online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

pmlnr 24d ago
Microblogging. That's the original term.
- 0x69420 24d ago
  "did you see what the president just microblogged"? come now, surely you understand why it would be beneficial to the commons to have a snappy, catchy term that already has purchase in the public imagination be free to use, right?
  - pino83 24d ago
    Okay, what other catchy term instead of "president" would you suggest?
    - thaumasiotes 24d ago
      King?
      - pferde 24d ago
        Pedophile?
- pino83 24d ago
  But people (around me at least) feel bad when they have to compose an entire sentence full of words without any brand names or corporate names inside. They feel like being separated from their mother or like they lost basic orientation when not in each sentence there is "an uber", or "my instagram", or "a youtuber", "a whatsapp", ..., ..., ... The email signature of my former landlord was like that: ..... Phone: 012345 I-Phone: 543210 Funnily, that wasn't some US girlie, but a German grandma. Maybe she got some bad US food on some journey and it made her brain rot away. Yessss, of course, as a bonus, it's a somewhat uncommon way spelling... But, yeah...
  - throw8494044o 24d ago
    The "phone" is probably landline or old 2G phone, iphone is internet connected smartphone (extra whatsapp etc). I remember having troubles voice calling iphone users, because of some roaming data bs, their device would not correctly fallback to 2g voice call on bad 4g connection, it tried to use data everywhere (voice call would just get ignored). Plus imessage does not correctly use sms protocol, instead tries to use internet and apples bs extensions. With bad connectivity it means sms will not reliably work on iphones! Super relevant in germany and their shitty 4g networks!!!
    - pino83 24d ago
      Heeey, our mobile networks are much less shitty than our railway services! :) Anyways, in such cases, I would try to get more competent hardware, instead of proudly advertize it in my email signature. Also, yeah, she was as competent as our mobile networks or our railway. When I subscribed the contract, she was making fun of another tenant who failed transferring money and then came with lame excuses like 'the bank account number was invalid'. In a very unfriendly German rich grandma way of making fun. Turned out when I tried to transfer the first rent: The bank account number was invalid... Well... At least she was precise with the mobile phone she had (not so much with its spelling, though). :)
      - account42 24d ago
        > Heeey, our mobile networks are much less shitty than our railway services! :) Still mediocre compared to nearby countries.
  - Dylan16807 24d ago
    The brand name version from back in the day was calling them twits. Let tweeting ring free.
dewey 24d ago
Mastodon and X both switched to “posts”. Toots was the old name.
- nunobrito 24d ago
  Yep, and didn't work.
  - dewey 24d ago
    In what way? I haven’t seen someone say “toot” in a very long time. Tweet I did but that was arguably more entrenched in pop culture over the years.
    - pferde 24d ago
      I guess it depends on what community/bubble are you in. Many fediverse users I know have always been, and will always be tooting.
- account42 24d ago
  Which has been the correct name since before Twitter existed. You can also use "message", or "comment" if its in reply to something else.
IAmBroom 24d ago
Do you have to finger them before you poke them? <smoking emoji>
incanus77 24d ago
Some fun history on the origin of ‘tweet’: https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/

pmlnr 24d ago

Microblogging. That's the original term.

0x69420 24d ago
"did you see what the president just microblogged"? come now, surely you understand why it would be beneficial to the commons to have a snappy, catchy term that already has purchase in the public imagination be free to use, right?
- pino83 24d ago
  Okay, what other catchy term instead of "president" would you suggest?
  - thaumasiotes 24d ago
    King?
    - pferde 24d ago
      Pedophile?
pino83 24d ago
But people (around me at least) feel bad when they have to compose an entire sentence full of words without any brand names or corporate names inside. They feel like being separated from their mother or like they lost basic orientation when not in each sentence there is "an uber", or "my instagram", or "a youtuber", "a whatsapp", ..., ..., ... The email signature of my former landlord was like that: ..... Phone: 012345 I-Phone: 543210 Funnily, that wasn't some US girlie, but a German grandma. Maybe she got some bad US food on some journey and it made her brain rot away. Yessss, of course, as a bonus, it's a somewhat uncommon way spelling... But, yeah...
- throw8494044o 24d ago
  The "phone" is probably landline or old 2G phone, iphone is internet connected smartphone (extra whatsapp etc). I remember having troubles voice calling iphone users, because of some roaming data bs, their device would not correctly fallback to 2g voice call on bad 4g connection, it tried to use data everywhere (voice call would just get ignored). Plus imessage does not correctly use sms protocol, instead tries to use internet and apples bs extensions. With bad connectivity it means sms will not reliably work on iphones! Super relevant in germany and their shitty 4g networks!!!
  - pino83 24d ago
    Heeey, our mobile networks are much less shitty than our railway services! :) Anyways, in such cases, I would try to get more competent hardware, instead of proudly advertize it in my email signature. Also, yeah, she was as competent as our mobile networks or our railway. When I subscribed the contract, she was making fun of another tenant who failed transferring money and then came with lame excuses like 'the bank account number was invalid'. In a very unfriendly German rich grandma way of making fun. Turned out when I tried to transfer the first rent: The bank account number was invalid... Well... At least she was precise with the mobile phone she had (not so much with its spelling, though). :)
    - account42 24d ago
      > Heeey, our mobile networks are much less shitty than our railway services! :) Still mediocre compared to nearby countries.
- Dylan16807 24d ago
  The brand name version from back in the day was calling them twits. Let tweeting ring free.

dewey 24d ago

Mastodon and X both switched to “posts”. Toots was the old name.

nunobrito 24d ago
Yep, and didn't work.
- dewey 24d ago
  In what way? I haven’t seen someone say “toot” in a very long time. Tweet I did but that was arguably more entrenched in pop culture over the years.
  - pferde 24d ago
    I guess it depends on what community/bubble are you in. Many fediverse users I know have always been, and will always be tooting.
account42 24d ago
Which has been the correct name since before Twitter existed. You can also use "message", or "comment" if its in reply to something else.

IAmBroom 24d ago

Do you have to finger them before you poke them? <smoking emoji>

incanus77 24d ago

Some fun history on the origin of ‘tweet’: https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/