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Twitter used to be a weird word. The verb is "to toot".


I see very few people use "toot" much on Mastodon now, though. It's certainly in use, but "post" seems to be more common, in part I think because it saves is from switching back and forth when talking about Twitter, but also because Mastodon is just one of many applications in the Fediverse. A number of my followers are on Pleroma or Misskey, for example, and a "toot" doesn't have the same connection to their software.




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