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Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

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Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

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post #6

Where 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

That doesn't mean the PR is guaranteed to be merged, let alone already merged, as the submission title implies.

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

#12
post #3

As 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.

>I thought it was a deliberate lambasting of the implied quality of tweets

You are not alone

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

#13

Where 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.

It shows "Changes Approved" at the bottom. I've never done any collaboration work on github, does that mean it's happening?

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

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post #3

As 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.

Same. As an American, I would be much less likely to use or spread good word about a product that centered around the act of "tooting". Our culture sees the word as silly, childish, and a bit gross. I could get used to it eventually, but if it's the first thing I see about the product, I'm probably going to find something else to use that doesn't make me think of farting or introduce fart terminology into my everyday word choice.

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

#17
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gargron is the lead developer of Mastodon

That doesn't mean the PR is guaranteed to be merged, let alone already merged, as the submission title implies.

it doesn't, I added the comment for context in case other readers are not aware (@ "someone")

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

#18
I'll be sad to see "toots" go away. I understand it was unintentional (I believe an interview with the creator on a podcast stated: "As for 'toots'...[he] just thought that was the sound an elephant makes."), but as a commentary on the average quality of discourse on social media, it was brilliant.

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

#19
post #3

As 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.

Likewise, I've never heard it used in a different way. At best, in my head, it was an onomotopoeia that could be used for the sound a kazoo or paper trumpet makes... but usually a fart.

Re: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

#20
post #13

Where 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.

It shows "Changes Approved" at the bottom. I've never done any collaboration work on github, does that mean it's happening?

It means that another mastodon developer (ykzts) reviewed and approved the code. However, the commits haven't been merged to the main branch yet.
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