Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team

Posted on Nov 11, 2022 • Updated on Jan 11, 2023

Share DEV articles to Mastodon

#meta #socialmedia #changelog #mastodon

You asked, we listened! 🦣

You can now share DEV articles to Mastodon in addition to other social networks directly from the article page.

Here's how to do it:

Open the article you'd like to share to social.
Navigate to the ellipsis icon on the left sidebar (aka the three dot menu, aka the meatball menu) and select it.
Select "Share to Mastodon"
This will open the app toot.kytta.dev, which will populate your DEV post link and ask you to input the instance to which you'd like to share.

Select TOOT! and you're good to go! 🎉

PS — if there are Mastodon-related features you'd like to see implemented, we welcome you to open a discussion in our public repo. Yay Open Source!

Big thanks to @jaw6 for building this feature and to @ridhwana & @fdocr for reviewing! Thanks as well to Nikita Karamov for creating the cross-instance share page we've utilized here.

Top comments (11)

Joshua Wehner • Nov 11 '22

Folks may not know that there's a bit of a story behind Mastodon's choice of the word "TOOT":

When @Hbomberguy asked me to change the "publish" button to "toot" I wasn't aware that some regions (USA?) use that as slang for farts rather than the noise that elephants and trumpets make.

And it's pretty damn annoying to hear that take/joke over and over and over and over again. Realistically, "tweet" is just as much nonsense. Birds don't tweet, they chirp, that's not a common word. But it's already ingrained in people's minds so to them tweet is serious and toot is not.

I'm really frustrated because I think "toot" is cute and I've never heard anyone actually use it to mean farts because that's just not a thing where I'm from.

And I do like that I can tell someone "could you toot that" instead of "could you post that on Mastodon", there is recognition value in that.

But if that's legit going to be an obstacle to people taking Mastodon seriously, it seems impractical for me to insist on that term. 😦

Erin Bensinger • Nov 11 '22

Love this. As a US American "toot" is a little silly when it hits my ear, but I think it's the perfect amount of silliness. What are we doing but tooting our opinions into the void?🦣💨

Ben Sinclair • Nov 12 '22

"Toot" is used to mean fart in the UK, but rarely; it's kind of archaic. As an aside, a much more popular word for it over here is "trump".

BezPowell • Nov 12 '22

Interesting. As a fellow British person I have heard the word toot on many an occasion, but never trump; perhaps it's a regional thing? I'm from the Welsh border country, so we're probably a little behind the times over here.

Andy Piper • Nov 11 '22

Lets gooooo! Nice work! See you over on 🐘

Kurtiss Frost • Nov 11 '22

Not gonna lie, without knowing what this was, my first thought was "Why would Mastodon care about what I post on dev?" Lol 🤣

That is all. Good article. Carry on lol

Thomas Bnt ☕ • Nov 11 '22

🚀🎉🎉🎉

Chris Jarvis • Nov 11 '22

Off to test this out.

Ayu Adiati • Nov 14 '22 • Edited

I don't have the option to share the articles to Mastodon.
I think it's cut off somehow :(
And I'm on Windows 11 and my browser is Google Chrome if that makes any difference :)