Because mastodons are awesome!
Alternatively: add ability to upload custom emoji.
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john-light
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You mean, 馃悩? There is no such thing as custom emoji. Emoji works well because they are standardised.
Fastidious
on 5 Apr 2017
:shipit: is not a standard emoji, yet here it is. Custom emoji are useful and create a culture between those who use them. I see it no differently than attaching an image to a post, however it probably doesn't fit into the GNU Social model to have inline images.
xori
on 5 Apr 2017
Slack does a fairly good job at using custom emoji, but I feel that wouldn't work well with mastodon as we would just see squares on other instances or need to deal with inline images (as @xori pointed out)
James-Firth
on 10 Apr 2017
This would be really hard to deal with regarding federation, yeah. Not only with other instances but with other platforms using GNUSocial too. The way emojis are currently implemented in mastodon is already a problem (see #1199) but this would cause problems even between instances.
wxcafe
on 10 Apr 2017
I hadn't seen that issue, but wow yeah that could be problematic.
James-Firth
on 10 Apr 2017
Sounds like it might be easier to just get the Unicode consortium to create an official Mastodon emoji :joy:
ashfurrow
on 22 Apr 2017
Trust me I would enjoy custom emojis, however, the reasons we are using emojis is because UTF8 is in-band and standard. There would be a lot of issues with storage or privacy if we tried to ship out <img /> tags inside posts. The shortcodes problem mentioned above is bad enough as it is (we should really do something about it)
In any case this is not a priority feature and at this time I would say "wontfix"
Gargron
on 29 Jun 2017
Currently some instances have custom emojis, but we don't have a way sharing emoji between instances.
If custom emoji has fully qualified name like as :shortname@instance: , and if there is a rule to make URL of custom emoji image , we can share custom emoji between instances.
tateisu
on 26 Jul 2017
@Gargron how about an official mastodon custom emoji now? :D
thiagomgd
on 25 Sep 2017
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Trust me I would enjoy custom emojis, however, the reasons we are using emojis is because UTF8 is in-band and standard. There would be a lot of issues with storage or privacy if we tried to ship out
<img />tags inside posts. The shortcodes problem mentioned above is bad enough as it is (we should really do something about it)In any case this is not a priority feature and at this time I would say "wontfix"