Here's some easy Friday reading: a look at custom emoji across the fediverse.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/
#FediverseExplorations #data #dataviz #fediverse #SocialMedia #emoji #CustomEmoji
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Před nějakou dobou jsem zveřejnil vlastní sadu emodži (nebo „samolepek“) určených pro Fedivesmír a jiné sociální sítě. Jedná se o obdobu ve světě již známých a dosti hojně užívaných kapkoček (anglicky „blobcats“), vytvořenou vlastnoručně, od základů, a (na rozdíl od jiných) zveřejněnou pod svobodnou uměleckou licencí, ergo užívejte, šiřte a upravujte, co srdce ráčí! 
Před pár dny jsem navíc dokončil a připravil ke stažení jejich český překlad, takže pokud má nějaký český server zájem nabídnout svým uživatelům kočičí emodži v mateřském jazyce, nyní můžete! Oproti originálu chybí jen pár exotičtějších vlajek LGBT, nad jejichž překladem váhám. Kdo potřebuje, doplň svépomocí. 
#lang_cs #čeština #emodži #emoji #fedi #fedivesmír #kapkočky #kočky #překlad #překlady #samolepky
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Do you love blobcats? Are you a fan of free culture? Then you’ll be happy to know there’s been a brand new blobcat pack made specially (but not exclusively) for the Fediverse! Now also available in English! 
Designed from scratch for a neater look, these new blobcats try their best to preserve and emphasise the original’s fuzzy feel. Bold, yet lean. Refined, yet silly. Blob, yet cat. 
And best of all? They’re all free! Not just free of cost, but free to use, share, and change in whatever way you see fit! Possibly the first truly original blobcat pack released under a free culture licence. What’s a blob if not malleable? Make them yours today! (Or tomorrow. No pressure.) 
More info on the website, link above. Come in for a visit! 
#lang_en #art #blobcat #blobcats #emoji #emojos #English #Fedi #FediArt #Fediverse #free_art #free_culture #stickers
Mastodon ought to up their cache game. Months have passed since we’ve renovated our blobcats, yet most instances I come across still show the old ones. :gutkato_malĝojeta:
If the last two look different from the first two to you, you too are being tricked by your cache!
I wonder if there’s something wrong on our side? 
Conteúdo longo e blambers sobre snac, HTML etc.
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Did you know that new #Emoji can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the #Unicode consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.
This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)
You can read my proposal here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/greg-kennedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf
and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"
Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!
