Discord screenshot of Gargron posting: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.

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   Vyr Cossont 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (vyr@universeodon.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 00:38:04 JST Vyr Cossont 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

   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: