As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
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Why aren't posts on mastodon called "toots"?
TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.
They were called toots and they fucking got rid of it? How uncreative can you be!?
we can keep calling them toots
I vote for calling them twats instead
People still use it all the time, often ironically.
I'll say that, fart jokes aside, I like just saying "posts" for everything because at this point, and in an interconnected set of networks where we're all using multiple services I've frankly outgrown the need to brand each bit of text I spew onto the Internet. It's the same reason I say "I'll text you" instead of "I'll whatsapp you" or whatever.