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.
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.
But they…were?
https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221
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