On Reddit it’s call Subreddits, will it one day be called Sublemmies?

  • Rune@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    A bit of back story on this: the Mastodon creator named them toots as a bit for celebrity attention, then, later, he renamed them to posts to be taken seriously. Now people on many different platforms call their posts toots, but post and status are equally valid (the status name comes from the api specification)

    • Infrapink@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Not quite.

      Hbomberguy, a leftie, YouTuber, offered to pay Eugen Rochko’s development and hosting fees as long as Mastodon posts were called toots. Rochko accepted, not aware that toot can also mean fart (his first language is German). After Rochko realised this and had enough other income that he didn’t have to rely on Hbomberguy, he reverted to the old name, but many users still call them toots because it’s a more fun word.