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FYI, PieFed has emoji reactions...
Yeah but who cares, even if you use a piefed account responding to a piefed post in a piefed community you can't do anything that's not yet implemented in Lemmy on mobile because none of the clients care about piefed. That's the problem when you move fast, break things, and expect others to catch up.
Blorp displays emoji reactions with no issue
Yup, we all better switch back to Windoze fo sho, can't have extra features or choices that the herd does not approve of - if not everyone is willing to switch, then nobody is allowed to! /s
Btw I just added an emoji reaction to the comment I was replying to. A Lemmy account, in a Lemmy community. Anyone who is using a compatible client can view it - e.g. I confirmed using Firefox on Android from a couple different PieFed instances, like here is this post viewed from PieFed.zip.
It would be like if Linux devs simply didn't implement their own DE, relied entirely on software ported from windows, and then focused their team on adding stuff above all else
If only there were a universal emoji solution which wasn't instance specific.
The solution would be no emoji's at all. One can dream.
I remember people used to get mad about emojis on Reddit because it was a more desktop-oriented site years ago. There was a running gag that only πΏ was allowed.
Yeah, I recall that too.
I used to just dislike them, but now AI thinks it should shove it in everything.
The no desire for emojis carries on.
Here is this post viewed from PieFed.zip, a different instance from the one that I added my PieFed icon emoji reaction from, which renders it just fine. Maybe some of the more custom emojis might not transfer, I do not recall those details, but the basic ones work perfectly from any compatible client?
WHOOOOOOOOSH
I was talking about in text emojis.
I wondered if that is what you meant. Imagine scrolling down the list of comments, seeing so very many entries that add nothing to the conversation besides an additional assent / detraction / reaction to it, above and beyond what the voting already shows.
^THIS
And my axe!
I also choose OP's mom...
"Reactions" such as this take up attention, and detract from conversations. And most importantly, they do not scale well: 10-100 of those is nothing at all like 10-100 emoji reactions.
We CAN have our cake AND eat it too - we can both get our emotional highs from adding a satisfying emoji reaction, while also doing so in a manner that preserves readability of the conversational, threaded forum-style comment structure.
Also, the presence of the possibility of emoji reactions in no way prevents someone from still submitting a traditional comment. In fact, I'm doing so right now...
It's good to have choices. :-)
Edit: Also, I included a link demonstrating that it is not, in fact, "instance specific"? Perhaps you meant platform specific? Anyway, you do seem correct that I did not properly deduce whatever it was that you could have meant with your words.
Thats fair, and it's also a bigger problem now that people are using bots to feign user engagement.
cool! i need to migrate anyways, but then who will recognize the insane dude who blathers about their personal life when they get stressed?
oh who am i kidding it'll take y'all five minutes.
Use the same username+icon and people won't even realize that you've switched:-).
Interesting that they clearly know that doing that would be undesirable to the laptop owner.
Good luck trying to install Win11 on my 2016 Chromebook that was a piece of shit when new.
i have a hammer. i can give it the same functionality in, oh, about three swings
Upside: donβt even need to bother with the bios.
you still have to disable secureboot though probably
In three swings? Must be a pretty big hammer.
The horror!
At first I thought this was an announcement from Microsoft.
For a second I thought this was real. I know some companies forcibly restart their own work devices if they're left switched on and not interacted with for a while in order to apply security patches
Part of my job is doing that for 2k computers for over 100 different small businesses. I schedule that shit to happen automatically after hours, but some people I work with don't. They push those rebouts and updates whenever and it causes a lot of problems.
i am so sorry. I was with this firm that insisted on doing updates on friday at noon. one time, it was crunch. and the update failed. for six hours. so the boss got angrier and angrier while the rest of us drank coffee and chatted, then went home early for the weekend before he developed an aneurysm.
Stop it you're scarring my laptop.
Is that a threat?
Yes
I would throw handsover this
If I had infinite time to follow my whims, this makes me want to make an OS/bootloader that checks the other boot devices to see if it is attempting to install windows and then act as if it is but throw all kinds of strange errors while actually doing nothing.