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Ugh, I really don't care for their selection process. Emoji should be open source even though that means there will be nazi emoji and porn emoji, it should be up to the user which ones they use. The selection committee seems like a very arbitrary group and many of their decisions seem equally arbitrary.

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I don't know if you've ever used even remotely popular slack instances, but I'd say the flood of new reactions people are constantly adding on the slack instances (including corporate ones) I've been on is not something I'd want to see repeated for emojis.

Useful feature though, but just for limited audiences (not just Slack of course, Mattermost does this too). We have a grammar Nazi flag, a rubber duck, and an animated dancing banana.

I like it! And I've been guilty of adding my own.

But yes, limited audiences. Exactly that.

Is the Grammar Nazi flag the Grammarly logo but with a swastika instead of the G?

This one is a stylised black square 'G' rotate 45° on a white circle in a red field. Definitely off-colour dev humour for internal use; but that has its place.

At that point just have a messaging standard that allows in-line small images.

Yeah, basically. I'm thinking of something like stickers on messaging apps but without the oversized graphics.

It's only a matter of time until Unicode adopts embedded SVG.

See Private Use Area perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

On your private site with your private client you can stuff whatever symbols you want for any particular code point I guess (§ Vendor use).

This has been already brought up multiple times with multiple different proposals, all of which were unsatisfactory to this date.

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