There has been a new name for ages, they're called posts now, they're only called that by people who have been around for a while and liked the weird name. Being "professional" is boring
I'm worried this will make it harder for people to transition to mastodon as it's more of a shock. It would help if someone made a mastodon frontend to mimic twitter (shitty UI, paywalled, occasionally insert low quality AI generated posts, ads, read limits) for a smoother transition /s