so how come masto is rly popular with french ppl anyway? (i mean, more popular than w any other non-english afaict)
@candle The chief developer is French and hosts the reference isntance in France.
@candle i think one of their national newspapers covered it
@candle the "toot" button got mistranslated in the french localization to the french word for fart
like it's not even ambiguous its just fart
@FireaLoup @candle ah, i've been hearing it was mistranslated i unno
@candle because anything needs baguette
@candle Recommended very early by a lot of people in French twitter
@candle Many french newspapers and news websites talked about it a few days ago. Notably, Le Monde, one of the main newspapers, wrote an article about Mastodon (and it cites witches.town in it).
@Feufochmar ahh thank you
@candle The french REALLY love freedom, it's why they helped the US become the US (other than the fact that it also pissed off the UK)