singular downside of sudden werewolf TF: accidental local-only posts due to newfound habit of attaching 🐺 emoji to things

@Thaminga Wait, does attaching an emoji change post scope somehow?

@IceWolf Only on this instance it does; we've got instance-only posts implemented here and ending your post with a 🐺 is basically how you use that function.

@Thaminga Huh! That sounds like it could be annoying. :3

(I don't like that particular emoji because it renders with pink ears – pink ears! ugh! – which my system font doesn't do, but Mastodon overrides that. So I use instead!)

@IceWolf Ah, yeah; this instance uses the updated version which has light gray ones, fortunately.

@Thaminga Huh, so it's because vanilla Mastodon isn't just using Twemoji, it's using an /old/ version of Twemoji? I wondered where the pink ears were coming from.

@IceWolf Think so! Depends on the version of the software too (used to be EmojiOne in the early days in fact), though we're running the cybre.space fork ourselves here I believe.

@Thaminga Mine's on vanilla 3.0.1, which is pretty new...? I wouldn't be surprised if glitch versions (is cybre.space a fork of glitch?) have the new /proper/ emoji.

But then again the other instance I'm on (I have an account over on wolfhowl.me) is Pleroma, and its Mastodon frontend – based on glitch – also uses the Bad Emoji™.

@IceWolf My bad, it is the glitch.social fork and I totally mixed up the two.

Then again, emoji fonts can also be installed on a per instance basis I'm pretty sure, so who knows honestly. All I know is this is how it shows up on this particular instance, for as long as I've been around here I'm not an expert on any of this n.n;