Mimimi99
Emily NussbaumI am not going to call these things "toots," come the fuck on
fogelnet@Emilynussbaum Just don’t call them #Tweets 😳
john d. moore@Emilynussbaum It's like they're trynna cap this thing in the foot before it even takes off
Greg Pak@Emilynussbaum I remember feeling like a total ass the first time I referred to a post on that other site as a "tweet."
tim shey❤️🔥@gregpak @Emilynussbaum I still do, to be honest. Calling them posts works fine.
James Poniewozik@Emilynussbaum counterpoint: all names for posts in every social media platform should be a synonym for a fart
@Emilynussbaum and/or you could pronounce "toots" with a short "u" sound, like you're being sexist toward them in an old-timey movie
@poniewozik Heh, I did consider simply calling the posts “farts“ and cutting out the middleman
Mike McHargue@Emilynussbaum I call them "posts" and no one can stop me.
Julie Goldberg@Emilynussbaum This place is open source and unbossed, so I'm going to call them whatever I want. For now--posts.
Gtmlosangeles@Emilynussbaum @JamesGleick I was going to call them desperate shrieks echoing into the existential void, but I kept getting hung up on the proper spelling of shriek. #ActuallyUnusable
Will Wagner
Tony Yates@Emilynussbaum way too late to try to rename them. Type it over and over to speed up normalization. Toot toot toot toot toot toot toot.
RadioSilence@Emilynussbaum This made a laughably big difference to me: the iOS app Metatext lets you change "toot" to "post" in the preferences.
@RadioSilence THIS WOULD HELP
Meg Maker@Emilynussbaum @RadioSilence I mostly see them referred to as “posts” here anyway.
Steve Ely"Posts" has replaced "toots" in the official specs, from what I can tell:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#unreleased
I don't see it saying "toot" anywhere on the web version in the browser.
Apps have gotta catch up.
Melody@Emilynussbaum @RadioSilence omg thank you