Do other people think "Tyrannosaurus!" soon as they read the name Mastodon?

And is it too much to ask the fediverse to contain a pterodactyl, triceratops, and saber tooth tiger themed apps?

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DayDuJour@kbin.social · 9 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Mastodon is an awesome name. Calling their tweets "toots" however...

Deceptichum@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

Fool! Doctor Doom toots as he pleases!

unfnknblvbl@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

it's lovely and whimsical! Much better than just "posts" which is what they've renamed them to :(

DayDuJour@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Maybe it's cultural but "toots" just make me think of farts.

unfnknblvbl@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

Same! Fart jokes are very funny though. People who don't find farts funny are choosing to have less joy in their life but the same amount of farts ;)

Koimosis@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

All in all, the fediverse is a megazord

DarienGS@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Mastodons lived like 30 million years after dinosaurs...

YMS@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

And thus even the earliest mastodons lived closer to humans than to dinosaurs. The latest mastodons had the unfortunate fate of living together with humans.

calhoon2005@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

And pterodactyls weren't dinosaurs. Pterodons were though....I think

Havoc8154@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y

Nope, neither were, they're both flying reptiles in the Pterosaur clade. They did live alongside dinosaurs though.

osarusan@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This is definitely dating yourself... and me too.

random72guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Crazy to think. But I'll be damned if it isn't still cool.

spclagntdanazoe@lemmy.film · 3 pts · 3y

I love you

Gamers_Mate@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

I always pictured mastodons as Mammoths though I think they are shorter and have straighter tusks.

Ertebolle@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I think of the heavy metal band - maybe because I played a couple of their songs a lot in Rock Band.

Xariphon@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

I don't even listen to them and still this is the first thing I think of. (For as much metal as I do listen to, I'm not a fan of that growling/screaming vocal style.)

End0fLine@startrek.website · 3 pts · 3y
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sputtersalt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I know it's completely wrong but it makes me think of a shark. Like a megalodon I guess?

Nomecks@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

CONSTIPATED MONKEYZORD!

sheawoodrow@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

Saber tooth tiger is the only thing on that list that actually makes sense thematically. Possibly one of the later Terror Birds would work as a theme though...

Pilirin@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

no, i think of a weird-shaped elephant with ginormous tusks that curl almost into a circle