Can we all at least agree that “toots” is a terrible sounding term? It sounds like what happens when one of the poserpuff girls farts. She toots.
Group support would fix it for Lemmy, but it doesn’t fully fix the problem as I see it with this way of sharing the Like objects. For toots outside of any group (in Lemmy terms: comments/posts outside a community), presumably it would continue to function like this, i.e. only the receiving instance is aware of the Like. This still encourages centralization if you ask me.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
A toot is literally the sound of a birb. It’s got more comfy than “tweet” does.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
I’m not a native speaker so I don’t hear the fart association so much. But isn’t tooting also just what a trumpet or elephant does? In that way it makes sense. But I do think the terminology is a bit silly. Why not just “post” instead of toot? Why not just “repost” or “share” instead of “boost”? It feels a bit too much like corporate social media where every feature needs a “wacky and fun” name.
flamingos@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Yeah, I’m not going to defend Mastodon’s frankly bizarre Like system. It’s not even a privacy thing as favourites are fully public.