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I don't find “to toot” sound any stranger than “to tweet”.
In the US, “toot” is not only a word used for something you might do with a horn. It also means “a fart.” A hilariously bad name if your humor is like that of a child. (Mine is)
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It’s apparently a variant. I realized that the “magical” version was much more common than I’d expected a couple of years ago and did some informal research. It seems about evenly split, and I didn’t see any regional correlation.
I'm not surprised. That's why there are qualifiers. It's not intended as smack talk asserting " My variation is better than yours!" (Throws down gloves.) Sometimes, it's nigh impossible to readily come up with the wording that captures the myriad thoughts flitting about my mind and account for all possible social bits and potential misinterpretations. And I comment anyway, knowing it's likely to go sideways cuz hooma…
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My wife, exasperated at our two teenaged boys, asked me if men ever outgrow fart jokes. I laughed, said maybe, then asked her to pull my finger. Though when primed with the word Mastodon, I did think of the large trunk and a cartoon-like trumpeting of that trunk. Right after thinking how my grandmother would call her farts toots.
Fart jokes have always been found funny at all age and maturity levels. Even Martin Luther made fart jokes: "When the argument that the Christian is without the law and above the law doesn’t help, I instantly chase him away with a fart."
I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
Genius marketing.
*including this post
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"toot" means "fart" where I'm from. Imagine a social network where they referred to posts by users as "farts". "Your fart was shared by 230 of your followers." "This fart is NSFW" "This fart has been promoted" "Pin this fart to the top of your feed" It does seem like a poor choice of words. Tweeting on the other hand didn't have a negative connotation until Twitter became what it is today and gave it a negative conno…
fun fact: that was kind of the plot of a letterkenny episode, called "Fartbook", from season 1. it's really good! https://letterkenny.fandom.com/wiki/Fartbook
This guy needs an open mic
> 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.