<story><title>Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”</title><url>https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigyikes</author><text>I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point.&lt;p&gt;You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong.&lt;p&gt;If they’re changing course there might be hope yet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”</title><url>https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quesera</author><text>I approve.&lt;p&gt;No one asked me, but if they had, I&amp;#x27;d have opined that the pre-cuting of your nomenclature is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features.&lt;p&gt;Note that &amp;quot;tweet&amp;quot; was spawned organically by the community, and Twitter did not adopt the word formally for a couple years after it was in popular use.</text></comment>