That’s good to hear and was an interesting read. Thanks!
Big fan of SBC gaming, open source engine recreations/source ports, gaming in general, alternative operating systems, and all things modding.
Trying to post and comment often in an effort to add to Lemmy’s growth.
That’s good to hear and was an interesting read. Thanks!
Eugen Rochko, the software’s German creator, explained amid a flood of new users this month that he’d adopted the word “toot” early on at the urging of a popular Youtuber who’d offered him financial support as long as he continued using the term, which in addition to describing the noise created by a horn is — in American English at least — a synonym for the word “fart.”
Rochko said at the time he was unaware of the connotation.
I suppose it makes sense. I’ll probably keep calling them toots similar to how I call posts on X tweets.
Not-so-fun fact: the Spix’s macaw from Rio is now extinct in the wild
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/09/americas/rio-spix-blue-macaw-extinct-brazil/index.html
I am not sure if that’s a good omen for a mascot. Besides Mastodon has toots. Could become the new generic term for micro blogging.
I think it’s probably a good idea to separate Mastodon and Twitter so people don’t think that’s what Mastodon is striving to be.
Then have people expecting more or less what Twitter was on the Fediverse. I personally would rather see it verge off in it’s own direction away from a lot of what Twitter was from the mechanics to the atmosphere.