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Hello, We're Firefox (lemy.lol)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 67 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Saw this toot today too. Only now realized it’s from 10 months ago

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I always forget they’re called toots. “Just tooting into the wind” sounds so cute. Significantly better than “lighting up a cross for no one.”

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Because tweet never had any negative connotations before Twitter took it on. It's the sound a bird makes. Toot is slang for farting which doesn't have the greatest associations. It's also like skeet for blue sky. I get why the owners wouldn't want a word that has a whole and common on their platform community that knows that word as slang for ejaculation.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, I do think it needs to be changed, though I don't know to what. I don't personally mind it too much, but I want Mastodon to succeed, and I just can't picture legitimately telling people in a serious conversation about a toot I just tooted.

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