One tip for instance admins who want to use them: don't use the emoji resolution, get the full size ones instead. The emoji resolution may sound fine at 128×128 but it can create problems when scaled again in reactions or MFM.
Want some cool new #emoji for #Pride month? I've got a very interesting set to recommend today, the Yingmotes set by @mynotaurus
To be totally honest, I hadn't heard of #yinglets until yesterday. They apparently come from a web comic called Out-of-Placers. They appear to be some kind of mythical rat-bird, but you'd have to ask someone more knowledgeable for details.
What makes the Yingmotes set so interesting to me is that while you can just download and use the 17 emoji where the yinglet is holding a flag as-is, or customize them with your favorite SVG editor, the repo also has instructions and code put together to make it easy to customize the yinglet. I've never seen an emoji set with a helper script that lets you specify the colors of the fur, tongue, eyes, etc of the character in them then generate a whole library of emoji with that palette. It's an incredibly cool idea.
You can make a set unique to you so your scrunkly lil creatura is the one waving those pride flags even if your level of artistic talent is best suited for customizing config files.
I had assumed that #emoji which were unique to an instance were most likely created by someone on that instance. That's definitely not the case given how few are unique to is-a.wyvern.rip, the solo instance for Volpeon... creator of the original neofox and neocat.
Jeżeli użyjecie #emoji "woman-facepalming" albo "man-facepalming" w interfejsie webowym Mastodona, i spróbujecie usunąć je klawiszem backspace, to magicznie przekształci się ono w "person facepalming" (którego nie ma na liście na żadnej z moich instancji).
Jest tak dlatego, że te emoji są sekwencjami ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner — łącznik zerowej szerokości):
🤦♀️ to tak naprawdę 🤦 (U+1F926) + ZWJ (U+200D) + ♀️ (U+2640 U+FE0F).
🤦♂️ to tak naprawdę 🤦 (U+1F926) + ZWJ (U+200D) + ♂️ (U+2642 U+FE0F).
Zwróćcie uwagę, że U+2640 to proste ♀ ("Female Sign" — znak płci żeńskiej), a U+2642 to proste ♂ ("Male Sign" — znak płci męskiej). U+FE0F to "Variation Selector-16" (wybór wariacji 16), który przekształca "proste" znaki Unikodu w "prezentację emoji" (aczkolwiek wygląda na to, że #Mastodon sam przekształca je w emoji po publikacji).
Te emoji można też łączyć z modyfikatorami koloru skóry. Co ciekawe, nie używają one ZWJ (pewnie dlatego, że z założenia są modyfikatorami):
🤦🏿 is 🤦 (U+1F926) + 🏿 (U+1F3FF, "Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-6" — modyfikator typu 6 wg skali Fitzpatricka)
It's rather widespread so I almost didn't share it but they made so many flags I couldn't skip it. The repo is here. Check in the folder named Fediverse Packs to find the one for your instance.
Funny little #emoji mixer I just came across: https://neomojimixer.com/
I just wish emoji reactions will come to Mastodon at some point... I always feel sad that users there can't see all the great emojis I use here on #Akkoma :neocat_cool_fingerguns:
First toot was a single 'loose' top-level toot, second one above to the #emoji thread, but no emoji showing in #Mastodon at all in both of these. And opening the link to your toot, leads to a login page on NodeBB.
It would be nice to give emoji more meaning this way. If also custom emoji are supported, then the "boost appreciated" #emoji can be filtered on, for instance. And #❓ can be alternative for #AskFedi for instance.
I am putting too much thought into how to find, compare, and compile the neo* #emoji variants. Legs, spider, devil snake legs, final form, eating legs, woozy, scream, junior, plead, woem, and halo are the ones I've found so far.
Tracking down creators and licenses is going to be so much work :neopossum_floof_sad:
I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a #FreeBSD enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!
Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈
So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":
I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly #dotnet platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, #C64 fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).
Let's start with my most recent opensource dev-project:
#qXmoji is an #X11#emoji#keyboard. Although it uses #Qt for its GUI, the mechanism to "type" emojis is pure X11. This means any X11 client can receive them (whether that client can correctly display them is an entirely different issue 🙈) ... not even #XIM awarenesss is needed.
The mechanism to inject fake "emoji keyboard events" is quite hacky and dirty, but it works!