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That's all nice and well, but while "toot" can be both a verb and a noun describing the message that is published, similar to "tweet", "publish" is just a verb - so how do you call a Mastodon message now?


> so how do you call a Mastodon message now?

As you've already done, you can call it a "message", I call it a "post". We don't need every social media site to strictly require their own bespoke terminology merely for the sake of branding.


Do you think the same people who call a question an “ask” have any problems calling a published thing a “publish”?


I guess those people will call it "content".


Are there people who call a question an "ask"? There is a common nounal use of "ask", but that refers to a request or demand, not a question.


Yes, in international English it's already started to drift towards this use.


This is first time I hear about it. Where did you saw it ?




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