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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:

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 01:51:26 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @vyr This is a crude, bad faith mischaracterization of events, with a screenshot deliberately disconnecting the message from what it was replying to, in the context of a longer conversation, and then doubly mischaracterizing what said message actually says.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 02:00:33 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @vyr To emphasize, and I really shouldn't have to explain this, doubly so because what I wrote was addressed to a specific person, but being able to modify Mastodon's source code is part of your fundamental rights, and nobody is going to sue you for it.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 02:05:12 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @vyr I was responding to a specific person who claimed that they were feeling, due to a lack of customization options in the software, like an unpaid SRE for Mastodon gGmbH, and I pointed out that we do not benefit from them while they do benefit from us.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 02:10:57 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @vyr At no point was the removal of custom emojis in display names announced. It was brought up as a potential solution to the problem of phishing in the form of a question dependent on community response.

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     ryedai (ryedai@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 02:25:20 JST ryedai

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @vyr

     No worries, your statement keeps its essence irregardless:

     "Everyone is welcome in the #fediverse no matter the protcol, feel free to join in, no matter if #calckey , #pleroma , #soapbox , #misskey or any future derivate)

     Usually you phrase your sentences in a way that makes misinterpreting hard.
     Which is the proper choice.