I’ve never thought custom emoji were a good idea. People say they love them, but how often are they used? Micro.blog spends a silly amount of time just downloading all the custom emoji from Mastodon instances so they can be displayed correctly. Currently 1 million custom emoji from 4000 servers. 🤪

@manton Can’t say I use them at all, but others might?

@manton Insanity

@manton I think they help build community on slack instances. I don’t have experience when them on mastodon but could see something similar. 1 million is a bunch!

@manton incredible! 😲

@manton I wonder if some analysis on them might make helpful suggestions to the Unicode folks of things needing expressibility.

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