[secondcoming]

First I've heard of a 'toot'!

It's pretty funny due to it's usage in UK slang. It can mean everything from smoking a cigarette, to snorting cocaine, to oral sex.

[gnfargbl]

That's true, but those uses of the word are pretty obscure. I would say the most common meaning of "toot" in the UK is the noise a horn makes, especially a bicycle/car/train horn.

It's much more of a friendly word for toddlers than it is a slang word for debauchery. (Example: "Toot! Toot! Packed full of fun and games, it's the Thomas & Friends Annual 2022!", https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thomas-Friends-Annual-Packed-games/...)

[dewey]

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080

They officially switched from "toot" to "post" a few months ago.

[omoikane]

Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

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

[jwx48]

In my particular American-English dialect, it means flatulence.

[cratermoon]

Thus the school-boy doggerel, "Beans, beans, the wonderful fruit..."

[jwineinger]

I learned it as "the musical fruit" or "good for the heart"

[jordigh]

Some of us who have been on Mastodon for a few years now insist on calling them toots, despite the official renaming in the original Mastodon repo. A toot is the sound elephant friend (our mascot) makes with their trunk.

Also it's silly and all of the other silly associations you have with it are a plus. "Twitter", "tweet", "google", "facebook", "amazon", "apple", "mac", "tumblr", "kindle" are all also pretty stupid names we've just gotten used to, but "toot" is OUR stupid name, and we made it ours, and if its silliness delays the corporate takeover of Mastodon, that's a huge plus.

[Nursie]

Or “fart”, don’t forget that one!