Ark Nova Emojos!

#ArkNova #BoardGames #Emojo #Emojos #Emoji

Do you love blobcats? Are you a fan of free culture? Then you’ll be happy to know there’s been a brand new blobcat pack made specially (but not exclusively) for the Fediverse! Now also available in English!  

Designed from scratch for a neater look, these new blobcats try their best to preserve and emphasise the original’s fuzzy feel. Bold, yet lean. Refined, yet silly. Blob, yet cat. 

And best of all? They’re all free! Not just free of cost, but free to use, share, and change in whatever way you see fit! Possibly the first truly original blobcat pack released under a free culture licence. What’s a blob if not malleable? Make them yours today! (Or tomorrow. No pressure.) 

More info on the website, link above. Come in for a visit! 

#lang_en #art #blobcat #blobcats #emoji #emojos #English #Fedi #FediArt #Fediverse #free_art #free_culture #stickers

TIL you can get a list of all the custom emojis of another Mastodon instance by using a service that @iliana created:

Enter the name of the instance on https://emojos.in/ and get the complete list of all emojos

#emojos #fediverse #TIL

I was searching for paw versions of the thumbs up 👍 and thumbs down 👎 emojis so I can use them as reactions on Matrix. Preferably Creative Commons.

I found https://mutant.tech/ which has pawbs and is CC-BY-NC-SA, and they're on Mastodon, @mutantstd !

Firefish users can already use those as reactions, and I gather this will be very nice to use when Mastodon glitch-soc finally gets reactions. On Matrix I just use Cinny to add emojis trivially and I can then use them as either emojis or stickers.

#emoji #emojos #furry #paws

So apparently server administrators on the #Fediverse won’t be able to name custom emoji in their native languages and expect them to work in Mastodon, because according to @Gargron non-ASCII signs are hard to input and diacritics shouldn’t change the meaning of words:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/28572#issuecomment-1878952504

No, in my view emoji identifiers shouldn’t be ‘straightforward to input for everyone’. Custom emoji are local to a server; they should be straightforward to input for the users of that server. People from other servers don’t ever have to type their names (unless their administrators choose to add them to their own server), so their ability to type them is completely irrelevant.

Why should a server made specifically for people speaking Russian or Japanese have to use ASCII for their emoji identifiers? Their users have no trouble typing Cyrillic or Kanji signs; it’s what they already do when they make a post; it’s how they normally talk. Why force them to use a different language/alphabet when typing emoji identifiers?

Moreover, linking the username issue makes no sense whatsoever. Usernames are typed across servers and it makes sense to impose stricter technical limitations so more people can read, write and recognise them. This is not the case for emoji; you rarely ever need to type other servers’ emoji identifiers. Normally you don’t even get to see them; you only get to see the picture they represent! Assuming server admins do their job responsibly, there is zero added confusion for anyone involved.

I understand that Unicode is complex, language support is challenging and compromises might be necessary at times. But can we please accept the existence of different languages and writing systems as a reality that we should try to accommodate for, rather than change or circumvent? Yes, a and á are different signs. Yes, they might radically change the meaning of a word. That’s not a proposition for us to accept or reject; that’s the reality of our multilingual world, and should be the basis of our discussion.

#lang_en #accessibility #a11y #custom_emoji #development #emoji #emojos #free_software #internationalisation #internationalization #i18n #languages #localisation #localization #l10n #Mastodon #multilingual #programming #software #Unicode

Added three new melt #emojos to simian.rodeo’s collection:

 — melting heart
 — melting bandaged heart
 — melting horny

Should I package up the whole collection for download somewhere?