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Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.

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Eugen Rochko

I like that I was able to go back to "Publish" in the official iOS and Android apps. It may be less whimsical, and less branded, but after using the platform for such a long time, I'm perfectly happy with a button that just describes what it will do without trying to be cute (not that I dislike cute, I'd never part with our elephant illustrations). I have seen enough "Dr. Doom toots as he pleases" quotes in the first two years of Mastodon to last me a lifetime.

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Arnon
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@Gargron I mean, you’ve no doubt seen this, but just in case.

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Cjayfla

@Gargron please don’t ever change it!

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FoxyLoxy

@Gargron who was that YouTuber?!

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Joan πŸ‚ Stay apart, Mask up

@Gargron Ah, well. I think that other meaning is a kind of Americanism, more than anything, so it doesn't really matter.

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Tim Chambers

@Gargron "The History of the Toot."

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R Hunter Gough 🍨🌹

@Gargron "toot" is fabulous and never let anyone tell you otherwise.

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FuriYuri

@Gargron toot is fine. Tooting your horn is a thing in English. Yes it can mean to pass gas but that's just one meaning.

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jigbean

@Gargron Do they still support the patreon though? I have been, well, not liking the whole toot thing but this story kind of makes me love it just a little bit.

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SocProf

@Gargron And as they say, the rest is history.

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Gabriel β˜•οΈ

@Gargron that was a very charming piece of information! Toot is fine :notsimple:

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kat excellence

@Gargron omg πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

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Ted Makes Games

@Gargron We staunchly stand by our decision to change every string to β€œPost” 🀣

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Paul Neave

@Gargron It could have been worse. You could have used β€œTrump” πŸ™ˆ Toot is fine πŸ‘

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Agentlemaninjapan

@Gargron to be fair there are people who sound like they are talking out of their arse sometimes (even though I've yet to find someone like that on here yet), I like it. πŸ˜‚

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@Gargron Thanks for offering us SM refugees a new home. We are so grateful.

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jojowiththeflow :coffefied:

@Gargron This is kind of cute, though. And I like the (alternative meaning of the) term "Toot" if only to remind us not to take ourselves too seriously.

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Rudi

@Gargron as someone with chronic GI issues, 'toot' makes me feel seen (or heard???)

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Orlas (aka Orlando) πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@Gargron @egd_rocha ah ah ah. Funny! Thank you for all the work, by the way.

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Tim Bray

@Gargron eh, I think Toot is just fine. Its *major* meaning is to blow a musical note on a horn.

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