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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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Aeva Palecek :gamedev:

@Gargron it's perfect though

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Akseli :kdenew: :fedora:

@Gargron I LOVE TOOTIN

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Cyber Yuki

@Gargron I miss the Toot 🙁

Can you make it so it can be customized?

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Lisa-Marie Cullen

@Gargron oh I love this 😂😂

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orchid

@Gargron rootin tootin

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Darryl Wright

@Gargron This. Explains. Everything.

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(Matthew)=> return 🏳‍🌈🎮💻📖

@Gargron I respect your decision but there's a part of me that wishes you stuck with toots. It's just too fun and cute! Hmmm... I wonder how hard it would be to make a browser extension to change the publish button to toot...

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Magess :heart_ace:

@Gargron When I first got here many years ago, I thought it was childish and meant the platform wouldn't be taken seriously.

Now I think maybe not taking ourselves too seriously is a good thing to be reminded of.

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Murilo Trigo

@Gargron TIL

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Pedro Machado Santa

@Gargron I bet you wrote a "Comedy is now legal on Mastodon" toot right afterwards. Right? No?

Okay, I'll see myself out.

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Khurram Wadee ✅

@Gargron If you'd called it Roadrunner then they could have been Meeps instead.

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Vincent Batts

@Gargron
It's perfect💨
@shanselman

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Aaron Lord :csharp: :dotnet:

@Gargron All proboscidea toot! It's fitting!

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Ketamine

@Gargron lol

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SlightlyCyberpunk

@Gargron Honestly IMO that's an example of one of the best things about FLOSS though. Every screen isn't processed and sanitized through some corporate PR team or focus group. Things evolve chaotically. Decisions get made just because someone thought it was fun. It's *human* :)

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Betsy Bee

@Gargron toot is hilarious. I love this story.

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GM Raphi

@Gargron Greatness.

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slashanon

@Gargron does the famous youtuber still support you

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Jennifer Wojcik

@Gargron It's ok. I find it rather funny. :)

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@Gargron Thank you for explaining the actual history behind "toot". But I rather like it, and now there are millions of people who are experiencing all the jokes about it for the first time, so ... : )

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