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by nunobrito1 hours ago |
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upvoteby dewey59 minutes ago|
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Mastodon and X both switched to “posts”. Toots was the old name.
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upvoteby nunobrito52 minutes ago|
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Yep, and didn't work.
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upvoteby dewey50 minutes ago|
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In what way? I haven’t seen someone say “toot” in a very long time. Tweet I did but that was arguably more entrenched in pop culture over the years.
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upvoteby pmlnr1 hours ago|
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Microblogging.

That's the original term.

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upvoteby 0x694201 hours ago|
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"did you see what the president just microblogged"?

come now, surely you understand why it would be beneficial to the commons to have a snappy, catchy term that already has purchase in the public imagination be free to use, right?

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upvoteby pino831 hours ago|
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Okay, what other catchy term instead of "president" would you suggest?
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upvoteby thaumasiotes1 hours ago|
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King?
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upvoteby pferde58 seconds ago|
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Pedophile?
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upvoteby pino831 hours ago|
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But people (around me at least) feel bad when they have to compose an entire sentence full of words without any brand names or corporate names inside. They feel like being separated from their mother or like they lost basic orientation when not in each sentence there is "an uber", or "my instagram", or "a youtuber", "a whatsapp", ..., ..., ...

The email signature of my former landlord was like that:

..... Phone: 012345 I-Phone: 543210

Funnily, that wasn't some US girlie, but a German grandma. Maybe she got some bad US food on some journey and it made her brain rot away. Yessss, of course, as a bonus, it's a somewhat uncommon way spelling... But, yeah...

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upvoteby throw8494044o57 minutes ago|
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The "phone" is probably landline or old 2G phone, iphone is internet connected smartphone (extra whatsapp etc).

I remember having troubles voice calling iphone users, because of some roaming data bs, their device would not correctly fallback to 2g voice call on bad 4g connection, it tried to use data everywhere (voice call would just get ignored).

Plus imessage does not correctly use sms protocol, instead tries to use internet and apples bs extensions. With bad connectivity it means sms will not reliably work on iphones!

Super relevant in germany and their shitty 4g networks!!!

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upvoteby Dylan1680752 minutes ago|
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The brand name version from back in the day was calling them twits.

Let tweeting ring free.

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