One of the things this site has going for it is that there's obvious and catchy verb that isn't riff on "tweet." The Bluesky people are calling their post a "skeet." Gross.

"Cast," the other hand, is so good. It harkens to older analog media, like broadcasting. It also makes me think of fishing, as in casting a rod to see what bites. That also feels like an apt metaphor.

Lil Jon re-contextualized the word skeet in 2005 with Get Low. That song was inescapable then and continues to be played, so when Bluesky adopted it I thought they were either ignorant or overly ambitious to think they could usurp it

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Lil Jon re-contextualized the word skeet in 2005 with Get Low. That song was inescapable then and continues to be played, so when Bluesky adopted it I thought they were either ignorant or overly ambitious to think they could usurp it 
https://youtu.be/IYH7_GzP4Tg?si=K9cJe1_lIxQJ_KSC&t=38