toot

 toot  was a humorous term for a note post in Mastodon that had its origins in a 2008 Twitter joke by Merlin Mann, suggested for adoption in Mastodon by Hbomberguy & officially adopted by Mastodon into its user experience in 2016, and finally removed in 2021.

Timeline

 * 2008-02-23 by Merlin Mann — 'toot' term as humorous parody of tweet:"'Toot' is SO much better than 'tweet.' Trying it on, starting now. Glad I tooted." which Merlin also uses on his contact success page, since 2014-02-17: "Toot me at @hotdogsladies on Twitter if I missed your note. Thanks."
 * 2016-11-22 by Hbomberguy: "@Gargron If you replace publish with toot I will immediately support your patreon for ever"
 * 2021-04-21 Eugen: Change the nouns "toot" and "status" to "post" #16080

Debates
The renaming of toots to posts caused a lot of debate, beyond the citations above:
 * https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/mastodon-to-replace-terminology-of-toots-and-status-with-post/1627
 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882318