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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?
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 they’re changing course there might be hope yet.
> 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.
If someone tells me "hey wanna toot with me" I certainly don't think I'd have a clue what they meant.
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…
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…
I 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.
Uh, I think you might have it backwards there. The Mastodon folks probably didn't spend enough time thinking about branding.
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…
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…
I do get tootsuite => toute de suite i.e. a sense of immediacy, the present moment, with greater impact for being a bilingual pun. Along with that, the onomatopoeic elephant.
Cynical take: notwithstanding the denial in the PR, that original author knew the scatological allusion, and that it has parochial scope, i.e. they actively intended to annoy Americans, and in particular those with a prim streak.
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.