Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
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Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
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Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#2Where does it say in the discussion that it was accepted?
Someone suggested that it be done, and most seem to be against and no conclusion has been reached at the bottom, as far as I can tell.
Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#3As someone who doesn’t use Mastadon, I immediately went to the toots -> farts connection.
I get that a Mastadon is an elephant, elephants trumpet or “toot”, so, toot is a post. A lot of people are going to think of farts though.
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#5This is very mature of them.
(Now maybe i can stop giggling when someone mentions tooting, i mean.. "posting" stuff on mastodon.)
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#6Where does it say in the discussion that it was accepted? Someone suggested that it be done, and most seem to be against and no conclusion has been reached at the bottom, as far as I can tell.
Gargron is the lead developer of Mastodon
Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#7I approve.
No one asked me, but if they had, I'd have opined that the pre-cuting of your nomenclature is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features.
Note that "tweet" was spawned organically by the community, and Twitter did not adopt the word formally for a couple years after it was in popular use.
Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#8As someone who doesn’t use Mastadon, I immediately went to the toots -> farts connection. I get that a Mastadon is an elephant, elephants trumpet or “toot”, so, toot is a post. A lot of people are going to think of farts though.
I didn't realize they were meant to be trumpets, I thought it was a deliberate lambasting of the implied quality of tweets or whatever.
Huh. Posts it shall be.
Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#9Where does it say in the discussion that it was accepted? Someone suggested that it be done, and most seem to be against and no conclusion has been reached at the bottom, as far as I can tell.
AFAICT the PR author is actually the #1 developer of Mastodon and also authored the original change of renaming "posts" to "toots".
Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”
#10> The word “toot” is a part of mastodon, it fits, people know what you mean. If you take that away you take away a part of mastodon’s soul.
Proof people will react dramatically to basically any change, I guess.
More importantly, as Blikkentrekker has pointed out, this hasn't been merged yet, and in fact from the comments seems to be very unpopular. Possibly it won't be merged at all.