aw, Mastodon's emoji replacement logic doesn't honor variant selectors

@noiob I loathe when legitimate non-emoji characters get replaced with emoji. "™" is the most common example I encounter, but I've also seen replacement for the playing-card heart "♥" and others that aren't coming to mind.

@noiob Fortunately, those seem to be safe here. Other places, though... argh.

@noiob it eagerly replaces most emojis indeed and needs the text VS to display them as text; that's how Twitter worked as well
might have changed with the rewrite in 4.5? not sure

@Claire yeah I put the text variant selector but mastoweb seems to always show the emoji representation

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