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Taylor LorenzEnd of an era!! https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221 #technology #twittermigrate #mastodonculture #tech #news #journalist
Chazz Michael-Michaels 
@taylorlorenz I prefer tooting
NovaNaturalistThe Tooting Popular Front may have a view on this! #PowerToThePeople
[old] stefan 🙌@taylorlorenz if you install your own instance you can rename it to anything!
travis@stefanhayden @taylorlorenz you can hack it with CSS and change it too! 👨💻
https://social.lol/@travis/109345610012894106
https://social.lol/@travis/109345610012894106
travis (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images If you like to #toot from your browser you can add some #CSS with the Stylus browser extension!
@travis @taylorlorenz YOU WOULDN'T HACK A TOOT.
Adam@taylorlorenz Thank goodness! (The forked version I'm using already changed it to "Post" years ago.)
Chance Carey@taylorlorenz Great change
Brian@taylorlorenz My instance URL is now a relic of the before times.
Bethany Brookshire@taylorlorenz We could have had "HONK" though!
Julie Courtwright@beebrookshire @taylorlorenz aww... I really liked TOOT.
Chris Coleman@taylorlorenz I'm *pretty sure* that like most good things on Twitter, "tweet" came from users. I have a feeling "toot" is here to stay.
Alex R@Chris @taylorlorenz It’s quite an interesting story – like many things about Twitter, including the logo, it was #Twiterriffic, an early third-party client, that popularised the name https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/
The Origin of Tweet • furbo.org
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]
@alex @taylorlorenz Ah yeah, I thought it had come from Twitterrific.
I got on Twitter in March of 2007, and started using it almost immediately. In fact, I have almost no memory of Twitter’s site from back then because I only ever used Twitterrific. I can’t help but wonder to what degree it helped influential users like Gruber stick with Twitter.
@Chris @taylorlorenz Yeah, I just used the site to sign up and apps pretty much exclusively from then on! And it does really feel like early Twitter was connected really strongly to that sort of Mac blogger culture.
Oldfriends.live Paul backup
Don't Mess With My Toot Toot - Rockin' Sidney live with interview
Jarrett@taylorlorenz rest in power to the toot
mediaseth@taylorlorenz "Publish!" is too generic. When someone "Toot's" or "Tweets" or "Tiktoks" or whatever, we get the whole picture. But "Publish!?" Maybe I did that on Livejournal once, too..
J Leep@mediaseth @taylorlorenz Post?
The name mastadon doesn't really lend itself for catchy names.
Mastadon post = most? Naaahh.
Mastadon post = toast? Ejhh.
Mastadon post = most? Nope.
IMHO, toot just sounds like a quiet fart. 🤣😅😂
ricardo 
Sam Hurwitt@taylorlorenz Maybe the decentralized nature makes it take a while to roll out?
Alex Chaffee
Ryan the hepcat 🐱@taylorlorenz yes but years from now we'll be able to sit in rocking chairs on the front porch and say to our grandchildren "remember when they were called toots?"
Triskele@taylorlorenz fine by me! toot is a dumb term
acm@triskeltic yeah, but "publish" as a noun?!?
@acm_redfox I guess, for a noun, "post"
Matt Bailey@taylorlorenz I will never stop tooting
Andy F@taylorlorenz Noooooooooo!
The Duality of Xan@taylorlorenz mastodon is officially more boring, great job team
nscrut 
@taylorlorenz I’m tootin’ furious about this
Peter M@taylorlorenz yeah, it’s cute but retiring a term that jokingly puns on “tweet” seems like a good grownup move for a platform that will hopefully be taken seriously.
EdenDestroyer@woogie @taylorlorenz not really, this really does nothing for the platform.
Anna Nicholson@taylorlorenz @erinfulmer Remember that the Fediverse (including all the instances running Mastodon software) is decentralised
So there is no central authority that can rename toots and tooting to anything else
What these things are called is entirely up to us! 😊
(Technical aside: the Fediverse is built on a W3C standard called ActivityPub, and at that level the official name for toots/posts/whatever-they’re-called is ‘statuses’)
Luca@taylorlorenz a toot always will be.
🄯 CarlOS@taylorlorenz I think they should be called "masts", "mastos" or something related to mastodon
#Mastodon
#Toots
#Mastodon
#Toots
chris
Picard's Little Teacup 
Scornflakegrrrl@taylorlorenz I keep saying the official mastodon app is not very good
Andrew Davies@taylorlorenz As someone coming from Twitter I am happy to finally see some Mastodon drama I can take part in.
And to all of those explaining that I can set up my own instance and rename it to whatever I want - stop ruining my fun. I am busy complaining here!
Major Hayden 🤠@taylorlorenz Can't take my tooting away! 🐘
Thomas Lawson 🇨🇦/🇺🇸
Austin Cross
Kara Shallenberg@taylorlorenz @tojo YAY! Toot toot! 😁
Jeff Albertson@taylorlorenz simply unusable
Michael Brooks 
@taylorlorenz Thankfully, it still lives on in the apps!
Matt Rubin@taylorlorenz we need to bring back toots, millenials are killing toots
Keaton@taylorlorenz I just joined and if I was tooting I'd probably go back to Twitter.
Simon 🌻@taylorlorenz i’m still going to toot 😊
Victor Tangermann@taylorlorenz they could've named a hootsuite clone tootsuite!
VocalDerbyGuy@taylorlorenz rubbish! Let the #toots fly!
Montana Magpie@taylorlorenz — and what do we publish? Toots!!
ApisNecros@taylorlorenz @seb petition to keep our instance using "Toot" 🐘
Nate Johnson@taylorlorenz @minter That is a word that has a very different meaning in our household and will not cross my lips in regards to this site - ever. YMMV.
WayneNH@taylorlorenz - Does this mean that we have been detootified? 🤔
JeannieD@taylorlorenz I like “toot!” We need lighthearted humor.
Dis
Arseny Khakhalin@taylorlorenz What??? I spend a whole week getting used to it, and now it's gone, and it was all for nothing???
Thom Pintello