Mastodawn

If you're a developer ignoring your long-term goals just to shoehorn AI into your product don't forget to add this button for the majority of us. Thanks! 🙇‍♂️

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Kura

:kura_explode:Mar 6

@kenney

so you want to turn call of duty into a wireframe shooter?

@kura What.

@kenney probably a joke in reference to apparent genAI use in recent Call of Duty's assets.

@kenney @dside just that.

sorry if it cone over wrong.

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D:\side\>

@kura the instance I'm on has a bunch of lovely tone indicators such as and others for situations like this; I'm not even sure where *we* got those from (don't know whom to credit), but the concept of tone indicators is generally pretty widespread, and emojos having their full meaning baked in (into shortcodes and consequently tooltips) has been a brilliant way to provide "explanation on demand" without inconveniencing readers much

@dside @kenney problem with tone indicators: i do not know them. and often dont understand them without looking them up.

from those three i know /j, i can imagine /hyp to be hyper, but whatever hj is, i do not know.

so for me personally they do the opposite of helping (unless its /s or /j)

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D:\side\>

Mar 6

@kura that's precisely the problem the emojo format attempts to fix; its shortcode explains what it is (though not all clients make it easy to see them, on desktop web hovering usually helps, but mobile often seems to have nothing?..)

I suppose one would have to previously encounter an unrecognizable emojo to have an inkling to look at its shortcode, which is, admittedly, another random prerequisite and a problem

@dside
(took oput kenney because its rather offtopic now)

I rarely look at the text emoji formats.
an emoji should be self descriptive IMO.

Also at work I usually only have mobile fedi available, and as you already noticed, shortcode lookup on mobile is paiful at best. :)