I know mastodon joked about not changing their name in their recent changelog but I wish they really did change it. It’s long, doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue and it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages.

End of rant.

Edit: above all I don’t think it’s a cool name. Can’t imagine asking my friends to follow me on Mastodon. They’re just gonna think it’s something dumb or weird. At least if it had a cool name they would be curious and ask what it’s about.

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    1 year ago

    From what I read someone asked for them to be called toots as a joke and so they did it, not knowing they it meant fart. Once they found that out they didn’t really like it, which is why they stripped it out.