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More of an accident. The hashtag emoji is a combination of code points and guess what the first code point is? ‘#’

The handling is a little wonky but if it doesn’t hurt anything we’ll clean it up and keep it

Life is funny, just last week I learned about a bug on some blockchain explorers where they display certain emojis in code point in base 10 though I think it’s: &#

Got to enjoy these kinds of coincidences and happy accidents.

>they didn’t allow me to use my emoji domain name(s) as my handle.

Not that I've been trying to keep up, but this is just about the first Bluesky decision I've heard that I 100% agree with. The usability line needs to be drawn somewhere.

It’s not ‘the hashtag emoji’, it’s ’the number key emoji’.