Definition of "toot"

So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.

1981, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 35, page 30

As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.

2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine

Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.

2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express

Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140. But that's not the only difference. Individual toots can be marked as private, meaning you don't have to choose between a public or a private account like on Twitter.

2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia

So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline.

2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker

Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.

1519, John Rastell, Four Elements

In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.

November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford

Long wandering up and downe the land, With bowe and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting.

1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.

1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes

A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 205

I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.

2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story, page 65

(see title)

2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express

Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.

2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia

One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).

2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times

Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.

2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker