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Share DEV articles to Mastodon

Erin Bensinger on November 11, 2022

You asked, we listened! 🦣 You can now share DEV articles to Mastodon in addition to other social networks directly from the article page. Here'...
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Joshua Wehner •

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. 😦

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Erin Bensinger •

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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Ben Sinclair •

"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".

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Andy Piper •

Lets gooooo! Nice work! See you over on 🐘

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Kurtiss Frost •

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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Thomas Bnt •

🚀🎉🎉🎉

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Chris Jarvis •

Off to test this out.

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Ayu Adiati • • Edited

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 :)
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Dani Passos •

Nice!

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Jon Randy 🎖️ •

Curious how long this took? Probably not long.

Do you think you could spend 10 minutes to turn the manifest.json back on for the site so that it's installable as a PWA again?