Vyr Cossont 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Nostr: good morning and heads up: Gargron wants to disable custom emoji in account display ...

good morning and heads up:

Gargron wants to disable custom emoji in account display names because people fleeing Twitter complain about :verified: when they realize anyone can fake it.

*all* custom emoji in display names, because it'd be impractical to just disable :verified: and Unicode visual lookalikes such as ✔️☑️✅√ and friends. that includes pride flags, and you know, i was *just talking* about the history of Fediverse contributions from people who might fly pride flags <https://demon.social/@vyr/110118781991020640/embed>;, but i've also seen custom emoji used in display names to mark programming languages, games, all sorts of communities…

*and* he likes to remind people that Mastodon™ is Trademarked, and Licensed, and thus customizing it to not do that would be forbidden: