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Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) (lemmy.zip)
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Picture of a official mastodon firefox account "favoriting" a comment saying "crazy as soon as mozilla does something good nobody is here"
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[–] -5 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

it's like someone looked at the word tweet and thought "how can i make this infinitely worse?"... i hope it never catches on. I don't know why people want their posts and announcements to sound like farts.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    There is a bigger history on this. Involving the Mastodon developer Gargon and a famous YouTuber Hbomberguy:

    https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524

    Gargon, at that time wasn't aware of the double meaning, as they where non-native English speaker.

    It got changed back to "publish" relatively recent.

    Personally I liked "toot" it was unique and funny. Many Mastodon-Users still prefer or use "toot".

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    if hbg had anything to do with it I have no choice but to retract my objection

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you don't like the term "toot" it's fine, it shouldn't matter who coined it. Don't make your likes or dislikes dependent on who stuff or ideas come from.

    I just wanted to explain some history of that term.

    The knowledge of that history and context is what should influence your taste, not the specific individuals involved.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago*

    I thought the begrudging tone would make it obvious but I was joking. so was hbg by the way; he clearly said it because it would be ridiculous, not because it would be smart. it's fucking dumb.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Its catchy and funny and everyone remembers it once you tell them. In other words, its perfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    we can call them sharts. it satisfies all the criteria.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    No, no. The fedi toots with short videos are sharts.

    Personally, I like to browse my feed of sharts before I go to bed.

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