Katie StecklesAs a big fan of custom emoji, I'd be keen to see some more options on this instance, and have arranged with the admin to add a batch of new ones at some point soon: get your requests in and I'll try to include them! 
robinhouston@stecks ooh, exciting! There must be loads of mathematical objects that would make good emojis. Polyhedra, tetrominos, dice – what else?
Pozorvlak@robinhouston @stecks For dice there's already 🎲, and I see there are the die-face-n characters ⚀, ⚁, ⚂ etc but they're not technically emoji - no dice that aren't D6es, though, and no other polyhedra that I can see. Some of Anders Sandberg's "warning signs for tomorrow" might make good emoji? https://lifeboat.com/ex/warning.signs.for.tomorrow
@pozorvlak @stecks Surely we also need some of the better-known fractals? Sierpinski, Koch, Mandelbrot, etc
but it could definitely do with some friends!
Niles Johnson@stecks if animated emoji are being considered, one of those looping Mandelbrot zooms would be rad! It could work for a mathy "mind blown" emote. (I mean, really any fractal zoom would be rad. Some will call Mandelbrot boring, but it's also classic and widely recognizable.)
@nilesjohnson @stecks @robinhouston I find animated emoji very distracting, so if they're being considered I'd love a way to disable the animations by default. I think 🤯 covers "mind blown" pretty well, but I agree that a more mathy alternative might also be nice.
@nilesjohnson @stecks @pozorvlak Other animated gifs on mastodon can be disabled with a setting: I assume that would apply to animated emoji too
@robinhouston @nilesjohnson @stecks aha, thanks! Sorry, I should have checked to see if that setting already existed before posting.
@pozorvlak @robinhouston @stecks I don't know that animated emoji can be disabled; I think they're treated differently than post attachments (e.g., there's no play/pause on emoji). Personally I have mixed feelings about them, so I can understand why some people wouldn't want them at all.
@pozorvlak @stecks @nilesjohnson Well, it should be easy to test this. We just need someone to add an animated emoji we can test it with.
@robinhouston @pozorvlak @nilesjohnson I got this reply earlier which contains some animated emoji, and for me these don't animate on the app but in-browser they animate when I hover over them? https://mastodon.world/@GavinSchofield/109353396204199913
Gavin (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Sadly my server only seems to have this funky cat. :ablobcatrainbow: :ablobcatrave: :apartyblobcat: :ablobcatbongo:
@stecks @robinhouston @pozorvlak hmmm, this seems to be another thing that depends on how the post is viewed. When I use the link you pasted (at mastodon.world), the animation goes when I hover anywhere over the post, but stops otherwise. When I use your OP link
https://mathstodon.xyz/@stecks/109353307781490216
and scroll through the replies, then the animation continues no matter where my cursor is.
Katie Steckles (@[email protected])
As a big fan of custom emoji, I'd be keen to see some more options on this instance, and have arranged with the admin to add a batch of new ones at some point soon: get your requests in and I'll try to include them! :aperiodical: :qed: :ramanujan:
@nilesjohnson @stecks @robinhouston I get animation only when I hover over the toot in both places (on the web interface, haven't installed the app yet). Perfect!
@robinhouston @pozorvlak @stecks ha ha ha, that's one way :) Two seconds of internet searching seems to show that the official mastodon app has a setting for disabling animated emoji (separate from other animations), but the web client settings aren't the same. 🤷♂️
@nilesjohnson @stecks @robinhouston Reminds me of this highly random claim on Wikipedia:
(the paper cited is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5886445/)
@nilesjohnson @stecks @robinhouston (part-inspiration for my fanfic https://archiveofourown.org/works/6570436)