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[–] pyre@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

it's like someone looked at the word tweet and thought "how can i make this infinitely worse?"... i hope it never catches on. I don't know why people want their posts and announcements to sound like farts.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There is a bigger history on this. Involving the Mastodon developer Gargon and a famous YouTuber Hbomberguy:

https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524

Gargon, at that time wasn't aware of the double meaning, as they where non-native English speaker.

It got changed back to "publish" relatively recent.

Personally I liked "toot" it was unique and funny. Many Mastodon-Users still prefer or use "toot".

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if hbg had anything to do with it I have no choice but to retract my objection

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you don't like the term "toot" it's fine, it shouldn't matter who coined it. Don't make your likes or dislikes dependent on who stuff or ideas come from.

I just wanted to explain some history of that term.

The knowledge of that history and context is what should influence your taste, not the specific individuals involved.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought the begrudging tone would make it obvious but I was joking. so was hbg by the way; he clearly said it because it would be ridiculous, not because it would be smart. it's fucking dumb.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its catchy and funny and everyone remembers it once you tell them. In other words, its perfect.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we can call them sharts. it satisfies all the criteria.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, no. The fedi toots with short videos are sharts.

Personally, I like to browse my feed of sharts before I go to bed.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we finally found a slogan.

"care for a shart in bed before you sleep?"

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, that's not very realistic. Once you start shart scrolling, its hard to stop at just one shart

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It varies from where you're from, where i am nkbody uses it (or even knows it refers to) farting

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As far as I'm aware most instances no longer refer to them as "toots" and instead refer to them as posts. Likely because "toot" is used in some places to refer to farts.