Oh! and OpenMoji has a variant that is just black & white line art. It merges well with text.
It would be relatively easy to configure their font in whatever instance decides it prefers that. Or have a userscript or something to inject the CSS adding it.
Yeah… I mean it’s not so different from things like MAYUS, italics, bold, etc… OR ALL OF THEM!!!
If you are doing it just for calling for attention to your post and farming for “karma”… then you deserve all the downvotes you get.
But if you do it because you actually want to be expressive in your post, and they are relevant, make sense or help even a bit at delivering what you wanna say, then they are a great resource to use.
Yes, but then I’d need a whole new account to keep a list of subscriptions, and completely switch to a different website / feed.
The interesting thing would be if the same frontend could make the requests to the the API from multiple instances directly (cross-site) to fetch subscriptions for each instance and aggregate the content in the same feed, even across instances that do not federate.
Ideally you’d get the content from those instances without server-to-server communication, and you wouldn’t need instances to proxy/cache the content from each other’s. Each instance would just serve the content they host when they do not federate. So they wouldn’t be held responsible for 3rd party content while still giving you the freedom to chose to connect with those other instances if you really want.
Of course it would still require some level of coordination for all instances to use the same standards, and be able to authenticate the user consistently (maybe using a cryptographic key). But I expect it would alleviate the inter-instance drama by removing friction.
Personally I’d rather there were methods for people to access content across instances without the instances having to federate. So that the repercussions of defederation can be minimized. Then it would not be a big deal at all even if an instance didn’t federate with anyone else.
I feel that it’s actually a big ask to expect the owners of an instance to host/proxy whatever content all other third party instances provide. If I was hosting my own instance I would actually rather prefer to not federate with anyone, because I would not want to be liable / responsible for hosting content that I don’t even have control over. Specially if the fediverse ever becomes as big and mainstream as massive social networks like reddit.
:x? Real Programmers useZZ.