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Eugen Rochko

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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Boris Barbour

@Gargron I am a native speaker and I just had to look up the second meaning...

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Daniel Taylor

@Gargron well, considering the definition of "twit" (at least in US English), I'd say that it isn't the worst thing I've seen in this context.

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Eye

@Gargron
I think that's way more telling of the famous YouTuber than it is your grasp of the English language.

Own those Toots! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™‚

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Austin Kocher

Amazing. LOL. I love it. @Gargron

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Amir

@Gargron I go with a toot any day, instead of a poke.

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harrymfa

@Gargron I can almost hear the sound of this toot ๐Ÿ’จ

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xChaos ๐Ÿง๐Ÿš€๐Ÿšฒ

@Gargron In Czech language, "tลฏt" is just fine, cute, sounds same, so everyone understands and has no second meaning. So don't worry. Lot of us are not native speakers. In fact - most of us. Who cares about Anglo's slang anyway ๐Ÿ™‚

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Dann

@Gargron it's better this way.

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Robin Martijn :verified:

@Gargron Can we at least agree on the fact that the first toot should be called the root? Iโ€™ll support your patreon?

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Col. Boozy Badger

@Gargron Frankly, I love this origin story.

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Lilith

@Gargron This is freaking hilarious

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Jennifer Taub

@Gargron

ooops. lol

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Matthew Moore, JD MPH

@Gargron this is hilarious

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Imprint

@Gargron Getting a huge kick out of the fact that I just get here, and see that I'm going to "toot", and wondered if I was the only one to know it as another thing entirely, discover that I'm not at all alone in that, and now discover the actual origin story from the creator himself.

I love this place

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Douglas "revdjenk" Jenkins

@Gargron I learned in my German class in high school, "Don't accept a Gift from a German!"
hee hee

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monksally

@Gargron Ha! Ha! Ha! Let's all toot away!!!!!!๐Ÿ˜

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GW

@Gargron ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
This is a great place to be, well done! Thank you !
In just a few days I have so many wonderful people I follow. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’™ mastodon.online/@BarbMcQuade

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