@lina >because it means both parties will see exactly the same pixels. Wouldn’t want to confuse anyone by having them see a slightly different image of a steak! (You’d think that’s what sending images is for, but what do I know.) - https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/
Custom emotes are fake and gay anyway, just send images.
@lina Instead of trying to pretend that these images are somehow valid inline text. If you're going to do that, do it in full, make all images be allowed inline.
@lina Actually they have custom stickers, check out FluffyChat — you can upload images and assign shortcodes to it and then use them like you would use them in e.g. Telegram. Oddly enough, it's implemented differently in Element where you can't even find those stickers, but there are different ones that you have to add to chats as component. But these images get stored somewhere on the server so it's a protocol thing, not some FluffyChat-only feature — you can see them in other clients too, in Nheko you can I think :marseyhmm: Why it's not implemented in Element that is considered the reference client — who the fuck knows :cirno_shrug: