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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: