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   Nolan Lawson (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 07:57:48 JST Nolan Lawson

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   In related news, emoji-picker-element is now updated to Emoji v15, and I am just now noticing some weird things like how Apple's "saluting face" (🫡) is only half a face for some reason

   - https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element/pull/333
   - https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element/issues/337

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     Nolan Lawson (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 07:57:49 JST Nolan Lawson

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     It looks like there is a fork, but I wonder what Mozilla or other apps/websites that depend on Twemoji will do. Go with the fork? Switch to OpenMoji? (Which is also only on v14 it seems.)

     Emoji are (ostensibly) a commons overseen by the Unicode Consortium; it seems weird that so many took a dependency on Twemoji, which may now be backfiring.

     - https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/issues/615#issuecomment-1565984122
     - https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/issues/446

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     Nolan Lawson (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 07:57:50 JST Nolan Lawson

     One weird (possible) downstream impact of the recent chaos at Twitter: I notice that Twemoji is still stuck on Emoji v14, and the contributor graph shows no significant updates since 2022.

     If you use Firefox, this means you can't see the shaking face emoji (🫨), or you see the version provided by the OS/website instead of the one built in to Firefox.

     https://github.com/twitter/twemoji