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Chris ColemanJust FYI, there is a mammoth emoji 🦣 and it is a better substitute for a mastodon than the elephant emoji 🐘
Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣)@Chris Only works on some instances that have enough emojis installed, sadly.
@EubieDrew You sure? It’s just a normal emoji from iOS, not one provided by Mastodon.
If you are using a client (likely most people) rather than directly on the Web, that solves the problem. I'm on a browser.
Cassandrich@Chris Sadly the emoji widget seems to lack it so you need a different input method or c&p to get it.
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), and now you can ask your friendly neighborhood instance admin to copy it from mine!
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Joseph Tesfaye@Mark @Chris Wait how did you input it? I can see it but not input it. Same sentence copied from your post 👉 we have a mastodon emoji :mastodon: at :wa: I’m using the web client from iOS Safari.
@josephtesfaye @Mark I couldn't say for all devices, but I just bring up the emoji picker on my phone or computer and select it like any other emoji.
However you bring that up your emoji picker, it should be there, assuming your OS has added the mammoth emoji, and it looks like most have.
@josephtesfaye @Chris These are server specific emoji. Your admin can add any emoji they want. these are all of our emoji on weird.autos 
https://emojos.in/weird.autos
https://emojos.in/weird.autos@Mark @josephtesfaye True… but the mammoth emoji is not server-specific, even if some servers do offer a custom one. Mac OS, iOS, Android, Windows, and others all have a mammoth.
Lacci 🐇@Chris
Interestingly there isn't a solid scientific answer for whether mastodons were furry like a mammoth or more like an elephant and there are reasons to think they only had fur on parts of their bodies like their face and possible only seasonally. Artists originally extrapolated from the mammoth which we have frozen examples of so we know they had fur, but mastodons lived in a much warmer environment and were pretty different in other ways. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-palaeontological-folklore-of.html?m=1
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Interestingly there isn't a solid scientific answer for whether mastodons were furry like a mammoth or more like an elephant and there are reasons to think they only had fur on parts of their bodies like their face and possible only seasonally. Artists originally extrapolated from the mammoth which we have frozen examples of so we know they had fur, but mastodons lived in a much warmer environment and were pretty different in other ways. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-palaeontological-folklore-of.html?m=1
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Oblomov@Chris still, shouldn't the be an actual mastodon emoji?
user74@Chris By the way, don't they call Mastodon "the elephant site" yet?
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