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Comment by JustSomeNobody | Hacker News Reader

But that name...

"Can you mastodon me?" Ugh.

I don't see this going mainstream with a name like this. I don't think anyone at NBC is ever going to say, "let's see what's trending on mastodon."

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Actually, "let's see what's trending on mastodon." doesn't sound wrong to my ears at all, but maybe that's because I've been around people who say that for a couple of months.

For reference, the community-decided verb/noun for posting on Mastodon is "toot" (as in, the elephant sound), so that would be "can you toot me". I mean. It's ridiculous, but I like it. It's endearing.

"trumpet" would have been more fun, and sound less off-color in casual conversation.

Community didn't like it for being too long.

Oddly, "trump" is a euphemism for fart in UK.

What does this have to do with the topic at hand other than a common sequence of five letters?

Because it was raised as a concern a couple of posts up in relation to Tooting a mastodon message?

In America (and I may be biased b/c my kids say it all the time) to toot means to blow your car horn...but it also means to fart. If I say "I tooted this morning," most people will assume I farted. You might want to reconsider that one.

haha!

Mastodon is the software. Welcome to the world of community powered social media. You could name your site twatter if you want, or quitter ;) and still use the mastodon software.

Not as weird as "Can you Facebook me?" — OR — "Can you Twitter me?"

I think it's called a tweet. Can you tweet me?

Facebook is horrible. I guess mastodon will succeed after all.

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