On: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

[bscphil]

> The word “toot” is a part of mastodon, it fits, people know what you mean. If you take that away you take away a part of mastodon’s soul.

Proof people will react dramatically to basically any change, I guess.

More importantly, as Blikkentrekker has pointed out, this hasn't been merged yet, and in fact from the comments seems to be very unpopular. Possibly it won't be merged at all.

[ggggtez → bscphil]

> people know what you mean

If someone tells me "hey wanna toot with me" I certainly don't think I'd have a clue what they meant.

[ragnese → ggggtez]

If someone said "I tweeted about that" 15 years ago, would you have had a clue?

If someone said "I Googled it" 20-whatever years ago?

[oh_sigh → bscphil]

I assumed you were referencing some obscure philosopher, but it turns out Blikkentrekker is just a hn username. I guess it's still the case!