Folks may not know that there's a bit of a story behind Mastodon's choice of the word "TOOT":
When @Hbomberguy asked me to change the "publish" button to "toot" I wasn't aware that some regions (USA?) use that as slang for farts rather than the noise that elephants and trumpets make.
And it's pretty damn annoying to hear that take/joke over and over and over and over again. Realistically, "tweet" is just as much nonsense. Birds don't tweet, they chirp, that's not a common word. But it's already ingrained in people's minds so to them tweet is serious and toot is not.
I'm really frustrated because I think "toot" is cute and I've never heard anyone actually use it to mean farts because that's just not a thing where I'm from.
And I do like that I can tell someone "could you toot that" instead of "could you post that on Mastodon", there is recognition value in that.
But if that's legit going to be an obstacle to people taking Mastodon seriously, it seems impractical for me to insist on that term. 😦
Love this. As a US American "toot" is a little silly when it hits my ear, but I think it's the perfect amount of silliness. What are we doing but tooting our opinions into the void?🦣💨
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I don't have the option to share the articles to Mastodon.
I think it's cut off somehow :(
And I'm on Windows 11 and my browser is Google Chrome if that makes any difference :)
Folks may not know that there's a bit of a story behind Mastodon's choice of the word "TOOT":
Love this. As a US American "toot" is a little silly when it hits my ear, but I think it's the perfect amount of silliness. What are we doing but tooting our opinions into the void?🦣💨
"Toot" is used to mean fart in the UK, but rarely; it's kind of archaic. As an aside, a much more popular word for it over here is "trump".
Lets gooooo! Nice work! See you over on 🐘
Not gonna lie, without knowing what this was, my first thought was "Why would Mastodon care about what I post on dev?" Lol 🤣
That is all. Good article. Carry on lol
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Off to test this out.
I don't have the option to share the articles to Mastodon.
I think it's cut off somehow :(
And I'm on Windows 11 and my browser is Google Chrome if that makes any difference :)
Nice!
Curious how long this took? Probably not long.
Do you think you could spend 10 minutes to turn the
manifest.jsonback on for the site so that it's installable as a PWA again?