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weird article on the front page of esquire about twitter vs #mastodon that doesn’t understand even the basic premise of the #fediverse and misses out entirely on the nature of why lots of small self hosted nodes are stronger then one centralized capitalist blob but alas you have to start somewhere. I have a feeling we are gonna get another wave soon. also a little shoutout to #diaspora in there.

https://esquire.com/lifestyle/amp22777589/what-is-mastodon-twitter-platform/

The CEO of Mastodon Wants to Defeat Twitter - What is Mastodon Social Network

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Amaroq on iOS displays this correctly
Aug 22, 2018 at 4:15pmAmaroq
Show threadDarius KazemiAug 22, 2018
@wakest the answer is unicode
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@darius naw I don't think its unicode's fault. its something mastodon is doing specifically with its rendering of certain characters and not others. screenshot of same browser.
Show threadDarius KazemiAug 22, 2018
@wakest one thing I've learned in years of software development: when you dig down deep enough, it is always unicode's fault
Show threadDarius KazemiAug 22, 2018
@wakest @elih haha of course someone with an RTL display name boosted my unicode jab :)
Show threadDeeAug 22, 2018
@wakest @darius Only some of the negative square letters have the emoji property per Unicode's definition; I believe they're the ones that are blood types (so, A, B, and O).

Emojis also have emoji and non-emoji presentations. There are (nonprintable) modifiers that you can put after an emoji to force it to an emoji (color) or plain presentation, but in the absence of them, it's at the discretion of the piece of software to decide which presentation to pick, so I guess that's what you're seeing here.
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@DeeUnderscore @darius thanks for this I was thinking about that possibility but wondering why mastodon is choosing the emoji version while all the other places I have looked at them chose the non emoji version. gonna try so see if I can force mastodon to display the non-emojified version.