It's amusing that the issue is the use of "toot" to refer to a post, which in English is used in the standard idiom of "toot your own horn", directly relevant to the platform's purpose as a social medium.
Meanwhile, the real elephant in the room, is the completely non-sequitur name for the platform - 'Mastodon', best known as an Ice Age giant fauna and also the name of an American heavy metal band that is still one of the top hits on Google for that name.
Whatever they call posts on the platform, the fact is that its usage will remain identically at a few percent of Twitter's.
Meanwhile, the real elephant in the room, is the completely non-sequitur name for the platform - 'Mastodon', best known as an Ice Age giant fauna and also the name of an American heavy metal band that is still one of the top hits on Google for that name.
Whatever they call posts on the platform, the fact is that its usage will remain identically at a few percent of Twitter's.