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DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@darius i'm not sure I agree that nice people go around calling things dumb because of the word toot, but I'm not willing to die on this hill either. I understand the motivations and support for it and still mourn the conditions that make it desirable.

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Darius Kazemi

@djsundog (I guess the other thing that I haven't brought up elsewhere because it might be just me that feels this way: "toot" feels like corporate branding to me! Specifically because it's cute and different. Same with the whole elephant mascot thing. It is off-putting precisely because it feels like it's trying to be a marketable brand)

DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@darius nah, that's valid, too. it's certainly had periods where it was very over the top brand-building-wise and I didn't like that either. I am sure part of this is just my inner change grump showing through as well tbh. it'll pass ;)

DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@darius tangentially, just the other day I was idly wondering when programmers started associating themselves with the language they used and forming identity around that. that's definitely not something that happened until semi-recently.

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