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It would be nice if they also didn’t call tweets “toots”. It’s a minor thing and I recognize this is a me problem but I can’t help but think of verbal flatulence when I hear it.
As bad as "toot" was, I still think it's better than "truth".
Obviously there's no 'rules' on it, but I'm surprised Mastodon is big and profitable enough to be paying a 'design agency' to change its logo's colour from blue to purple and make some 'subtle shape fixes that makes it look more precise'..? Maybe I'm naïve, just seems like a very enterprisey, 'who really cares', marketing-optimisation (when it's already really good and established) sort of thing to do to me.
One of Mastodon's weak points against its competitors is its approachability, so I think the design is a good thing to focus on.
They say they are getting a discount in exchange for Oak's sponsorship - there's no telling how steep that discount is, but I imagine it's pretty significant.
It would be nice if they also didn’t call tweets “toots”. It’s a minor thing and I recognize this is a me problem but I can’t help but think of verbal flatulence when I hear it.
As bad as "toot" was, I still think it's better than "truth".
Now it looks like Discord
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish we collectively chilled out about how insignificant things are named.
I find it tells me more about the person complaining than the thing they're complaining about
It would be nice if they also didn’t call tweets “toots”. It’s a minor thing and I recognize this is a me problem but I can’t help but think of verbal flatulence when I hear it.
"Toots" were renamed to "posts" in April 2021. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080
Got curious about who else is sponsoring Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors Though not completely surprised, I must say this collection of logos is a bad look for Mastodon's mainstream adoption. >80% of the sponsors are suspicious looking casino and adult sites.
It would be nice if they also didn’t call tweets “toots”. It’s a minor thing and I recognize this is a me problem but I can’t help but think of verbal flatulence when I hear it.
Got curious about who else is sponsoring Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors Though not completely surprised, I must say this collection of logos is a bad look for Mastodon's mainstream adoption. >80% of the sponsors are suspicious looking casino and adult sites.
Personally I find gambling sites (and alcohol ads amongst other things) abhorrent, however when I see sponsors listed like these it makes me feel that the portal has less censorship than [insert news / tech giant / etc here]
Which gives me hope / faith that a thing could be bigger / better than the narrow [other] -
It's like if there are only a dozen or so 4 color printing presses in the world - I'd want to support the one that prints Hustler magazines.. like Larry Flynt said something like 'if they censor me, whats to stop them from censoring you or anyone else'
I realize I am a bit of on outlier (I assume) than the 'mainstream adoption' group you may be referring to.
I also think 99% of the 'mainstream adopters' never look for nor care about a sponsors page.