Nah people were turned off by other stuff and chose to moan about toots because moan.
It's totally fine that they didn't get on with Mastodon, mind!
I do wish there was some other cute post name we could all agree on though.
I don’t think that a term that was sexual for two seconds 10 years ago mostly because of a rap song should stop anyone. People are mature enough to know we’re not talking about jizzing
The time I was using it, they said not to use toots, and were calling them posts. Didn’t save any thing. I would prefer it not have a silly name, to help it gain traction, but really I don’t care. If it is skeets it is skeets. 
posts obvi, clever name not needed
but proto's woulda been relevant and cool. seems like there's a million better choices than skeet.
there's also no reason to try and mimic terms from Twitter. just makes us look like we still love the other site.