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[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How did you do that "emoji"? Is it a feature of some frontend? Seems fun

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Anything can become emoji sized if you just add emoji to the title (![alt text](image url "emoji"))

Lemmy also has support for adding custom emojies that will show up in the emoji selector (at least on the web ui, I think many apps don't have support for selecting emojies). It requires the admins of your instance to add them though. You can get the emojies from another instance by using the addon mathemachristian linked to.

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anything can become emoji sized if you just add emoji to the title (![alt text](image url "emoji"))

Oh wow, that is invaluable info, thanks so much!

Lemmy also has support for adding custom emojies that will show up in the emoji selector (at least on the web ui, I think many apps don't have support for selecting emojies). It requires the admins of your instance to add them though. You can get the emojies from another instance by using the addon mathemachristian linked to.

I thought that was just a regular old emoji picker, I didn't know admins could add custom emojis there.

Thanks for explaining!

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Something I didn't say is that of course things have to be made for being emoji sized. Things can be hard to make out at that size, so just taking any picture and posting it as an emoji might not work.

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's obvious enough I think, but thanks for making sure to mention it anyways :)

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-emojis/

Alternatively make a hexbear account and copy it from a draft comment

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's really useful, thanks!