Erik Uden 🚩Aug 25, 2023
Most normal Misskey user @markiplier
Show threadCautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎Aug 25, 2023

@ErikUden @markiplier As a guy who purchased what he *thought* was a clever domain name a decade and a half ago and have stuck with it out of sheer bloody-mindedness, I can only stare in awe.

Some people really understand what it is to commit to the bit

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Aug 25, 2023
@Caution @markiplier absolutely - I mean, I buy GOOD domain names every once in a while, but this... Wow.
Show threadRev. GothAliceAug 25, 2023

@ErikUden @Caution @markiplier Now I need to try out an emoji IDN. 🤔

alice@📢.💩.la has a real ring to it.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩
@alice @Caution @markiplier abso-bloody-lutely! I hope Mastodon adds support to display them like that, too!
Aug 25, 2023 at 2:03pmWeb
Show threadCautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎Aug 25, 2023
@ErikUden @alice @markiplier It’s not really a matter of Mastodon, I don’t think (?). It’s more that punycode support isn’t broadly/equally supported so far (I’m reasonably sure it’ll get there eventually, but it’s not exactly high on the list of priorities, I’d imagine) but atm a number of platforms and browsers either don’t support it or don’t really implement it in a user-friendly way (displaying it in emoji in the address-bar, accepting emojis in the URL, blah blah..). Likewise you can’t register them to most domain extensions (it’s only CCTLDs and even then only 10 or 12 IIRC). It took some time for Unicode to get wide-spread adoption and that was to cover “real” languages. FWIW, Firefox will display URLs with emoji-inclusive domains. 🤷🏽👍😀
Show threadRev. GothAliceAug 25, 2023

@Caution @ErikUden @markiplier It's been supported for *years* in every browser I can think of, though admittedly some such as Chrome took a very long time to show the actual Unicode rather than the IDN form in the address bar.

I used Poopla as an example for a reason; the only emoji domain that will ever be registered. (Though I do use it for subdomains to obfuscate work-in-progress.)

Show threadCautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎Aug 25, 2023
@alice @ErikUden @markiplier In terms of browsers, what I meant was that it’s not displayed in a user-friendly way inasmuch as it displays the punycode rather than the IDN (no?). But afaik, there was still some issue with SMTP in terms of adoption/support but my awareness is probably outdated. Happy to be wrong! 😀