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    7 hours ago

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    These kinda suck, tbh. Might need a full rebrand.

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      Proposal for Mastodon: Trunky.

      It’s bouncy and fun sounding with bright percussive phonemes. The “R” also gives it an energetic vibe.

      Being a microblogging platform, it can both be a reference of how one truncates one’s messages, but also maintain the mammoth reference as well as sidelong imply the other definitions of ‘trunk’ which are also useful: a box where you keep stuff, and the central pathway from which other pathways branch.

      You can keep calling the posts “toots” too.

      However, I think “Favorites” should just be called Likes, or hell … updoots if you REALLY want to lean into the mascot.

      If so, however, boosting and bookmarking should also be changed to align with the mascot.

      Either call them Retoots … or Trumpets! And bookmarking can just be called “Remember” (because “Elephants Never Forget”)