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.

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Good point. I love describing what I do here as "casting," for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

(Mastodon using "toot" is gross too).

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They officially dropped it in 2022 in favor of "publish," but some people are still using the word "toot."

I guess if @farcaster wants to go in a wildly different aesthetic direction there's still a chance to claim "fart"

They officially dropped it in 2022 in favor of "publish," but some people are still using the word "toot." 

https://www.itechpost.com/articles/115087/20221116/mastodon-officially-replaced-toot-publish.htm