[pangolinplayer]

Post is called a toot? Tf

[commoner]

The bird app (Twitter) calls them tweets, so the Mastodon service decided to call them toots. But, they did rename them to "posts" earlier this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882318

I guess this isn't reflected in joinmastodon.org yet. Each instance can also choose to call posts whatever they want:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mastodon_social/comments/9mhzu8/how...

[Kye]

Long story short: Eugen didn't know toot had another meaning in some places. Toot is the sound a mastodon makes.

[FalconSensei]

I only discovered the other meaning on the post they made about the renaming. For me it always was mastodon and trumpet sound

[micromacrofoot]

They recently stopped calling them toots (I liked the absurdity of it personally). Don't think that decision has made it through to the UI yet though.

[wrycoder]

Boo

[outside1234]

"Truth in advertising"

[warning26]

Yup -- either the devs don't know what that means in English slang, or they have a very juvenile sense of humor.

Either way, that alone seems like it would present a pretty serious obstacle to anyone taking Mastodon remotely seriously.

[er4hn]

I'd argue that is a benefit. Imagine if people took Twitter and the Twitverse less seriously

[infogulch]

Imagine a "Tweet to Fart" extension in the same vein as "Cloud to Butt". Lets see: "How could you refart that fart?! :angry_face: That's a terrible fart." Maybe I'm just juvenile but that might be funny enough to make twitter usable again.

In other words, I don't really mind "toot". It casts the medium with a healthy perspective on itself.

[lmm]

It's a benefit for society, but it's a big negative for the project. Twitter wouldn't be half as popular if it didn't stroke the egos of its users.