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 <demon.social/@vyr/110118781991>, 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:

@vyr the response is distasteful but i feel like this post is missing some important context

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@trwnh @vyr wow so the screed was in response to someone who wanted to remove emojis. Sort of the exact opposite of what was implied by OP. interesting.

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