Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
by jclulow on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:12PM
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That honestly all sounded ridiculous a decade ago with "tweet", too. The success of the platform has normalised the nomenclature.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
by jamesrcole on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:09AM
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I don't agree with that at all.
It's difficult to show evidence for the absence of something, though.
It'd be possible to show evidence of it, like that every time the word "tweet" was brought up the were people saying it sounded ridiculous and embarrassing.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
by harpiaharpyja on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:41AM
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I dunno, it's not any more funny than if you substituted tweet in each of those.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
by philwelch on Monday May 06, 2019 @02:24AM
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Itβs less funny because of the implied association with flatulence.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
by coldacid on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:21PM
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Perhaps I'm just too childish, but that actually makes it funnier for me.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
by philwelch on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:17AM
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I meant the other way around, i.e. we agree.
Breaking news. In a series of explosive toots...
The foreign minister was forced to resign after a number of offensive toots...
OMG, your toots are so funny!...
Everyone's talking about what J K Rowling tooted today...
I can't believe you tooted that!...
...and so on
If you think I'm joking then that shows how bad a name "toot" is. Because these are all phrases that people would say about tweets, and which need to sound non-ridiculous for any such system.