good morning and heads up:
Gargron wants to disable custom emoji in account display names because people fleeing Twitter complain about 
when they realize anyone can fake it.
*all* custom emoji in display names, because it'd be impractical to just disable and Unicode visual lookalikes such as βοΈβοΈβ
β 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/110118781991β¦>, but i've also seen custom emoji used in display names to mark programming languages, games, all sorts of communitiesβ¦
*and* he likes to remind people that Mastodonβ’ is Trademarked, and Licensed, and thus customizing it to not do that would be forbidden:
Eugen Rochko
in reply to Vyr Cossont π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ • • •Eugen Rochko
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Vyr Cossont π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron thanks for clearing that up. i'll edit the post with a link down here.
kind of a weird take that Mastodon doesn't benefit from admins though.
segv11
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron I think community response has been rather bad on this extreme approach. The full richness of Unicode is an important part of community interaction.
A stricter Unicode filter would be time consuming to perfect, but it would do much more to balance trust expectations with individual freedom of expression. That being said, Twitter has burned enough of the trust that I'm not convinced there's much value in spoofing a checkbox.
mΚβ’ο»β’Κm bitPickup
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron
What to say, this is probably the worst smear campaign I have seen for now and I can't say that I'm sorry because people like
@vyr exist cause it's not our fault that they are as they are.
The only thing I would like to ask you is to not even answer this kind of "sh**". It's your precious time and your life and it's up to you in what to invest it.
Give them "cookies" by paying attention and they will never let you go.
Please!
Just ignore and go on, as hard as it is.
#mastodon
Purple
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron As a complete outsider to this discussion, but having seen quite a number of takes on it:
Beyond the claim of bad faith representation of the above, is there any substance to the assertion made? That there is an actual consideration of removing custom emoji support from display names?
tallship
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron
Eugen, please stop #hellthreading yourself, please?!
It's a total pain trying to hunt down your #serialized publishings all over the place in chronological order and in #context when you do that.
Just put your thought into #one_single_post like everyone else or wait until you're sure you've finished what you have to say before clicking on the #publish button, okay? Pretty please?
#tallship #Fediverse #ActivityPub #comprehension #netiquette
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Vyr Cossont π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Vyr Cossont π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ • • •> You are using Free Software. Customization options, or any fitness for purpose, are not part of the license agreement. Nobody from Mastodon gGmbH is forcing you, or even asking you, to do it. You are benefitting from the recognition of our trademark. You are charging your users for membership as an entity completely independent from Mastodon gGmbH. If you feel this way, you can develop your own social media platform from scratch and participate in the fediverse that way, or use one of the numerous alternatives.
dude, this is a real bad attitude. especially when you're talking to instance admins. you know, the people who run the communities that give the software a reason to exist.
and if it got that far (unlikely), suing an instance over trademark usage because they applied patches you don't like (or didn't apply patches you do) miiiight not be the best use of donations. maybe stay off that slippery slope.
discontinued pink shark app
in reply to Vyr Cossont π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ • • •on a related note: #megalodon used to be called @mastodos and have a pink version of the mastodon logo as its icon β until nov 22, 2022, when i was told to use a "unique name and logo that doesn't imply affiliation with or endorsement by Mastodon gGmbH"
while i am glad to have a name and icon that's not coupled to mastodon anymore, i assumed that it wouldn't be a big deal to adapt an open source project's name and logo to use in a fork β like, lol, every instance uses the mastodon logo
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