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Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] 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.