While I know this isn't a particularly serious little side-thread, it's actually interesting to many how many folks I've talked to who are not committed to something like Mastodon for philosophical reasons who are put off by the naming choices. It's not Mastodon itself that's the problem: it's insisting on calling posts "toots."

>it's insisting on calling posts "toots."

I didn't know they did that. That is decidedly not-metal.

It's not that "mastodon" is bad, it's that the others are so much worse.

Word. Also, it was the name Van Halen used before they became Van Halen.