• cmhe@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    There is a bigger history on this. Involving the Mastodon developer Gargon and a famous YouTuber Hbomberguy:

    https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524

    Gargon, at that time wasn’t aware of the double meaning, as they where non-native English speaker.

    It got changed back to “publish” relatively recent.

    Personally I liked “toot” it was unique and funny. Many Mastodon-Users still prefer or use “toot”.

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      2 hours ago

      if hbg had anything to do with it I have no choice but to retract my objection