On: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

[octopoc]

"toot" means "fart" where I'm from. Imagine a social network where they referred to posts by users as "farts".

"Your fart was shared by 230 of your followers."

"This fart is NSFW"

"This fart has been promoted"

"Pin this fart to the top of your feed"

It does seem like a poor choice of words. Tweeting on the other hand didn't have a negative connotation until Twitter became what it is today and gave it a negative connotation.

[fernandotakai → octopoc]

fun fact: that was kind of the plot of a letterkenny episode, called "Fartbook", from season 1. it's really good!

https://letterkenny.fandom.com/wiki/Fartbook

[lc9er → fernandotakai]

That’s a Texas-sized 10-4 buddy!

[Ntrails → octopoc]

There is a concept, on forums, of shitposting.

There are common expressions such as "chatting shit" for unverified speculation or "shooting the shit" to mean talking about nothing and everything.

I suspect most of the content on Mastodon, like twitter, is shit. The choice of words seems appropriate.