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On a related note, r-ChapoDogHouse is the last remaining chapo (in the name) sub that I know of. There was a porm themed one that lasted a while, but it got nuked eventually.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    There’s a workaround to do it from a federated instance but it’s annoying to do. On hexbear it’ll just autocomplete emojis after you put a colon and start typing.

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I feel like the emoji system within Lemmy could stand to be improved. There isn’t a way in the UI to target an instance and then utilize its emoji. The emoji is retrievable from the API at the https://hexbear.net/api/v3/site endpoint under custom_emojis. Each entry has all the data you need to query the emoji. The interface would need someway to reference other instance’s emoji.

          "custom_emojis": [
              {
                  "custom_emoji": {
                      "id": 68,
                      "local_site_id": 1,
                      "shortcode": "two-wolves-1",
                      "image_url": "https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/da7debc4-92f4-4d35-a27a-1dc2676a3477.png",
                      "alt_text": "two-wolves-1",
                      "category": "Abolish the Animal Kingdom",
                      "published": "2023-06-17T21:15:35.303290Z"
                  },
                  "keywords": [
                      {
                          "custom_emoji_id": 68,
                          "keyword": "inside"
                      }
                  ]
              },
      

      The base Lemmy UI allows for using the : character to search the local instance’s emoji like we have on Hexbear.

      Likely, what would need to be added is a way to “federate” or sync the emoji from various instances. I’m sure it would be trivial to write a script that periodically queried a list of instances and pulled their custom_emoji JSON and then import those emojis into your instance. However, what you would really want is a built-in method of allowing two instances to sync their emojis. Federation of emojis is probably not the right way to do it, it would have to be an opt-in process two instances do together, with a way to denoting the origin of the emoji for easy removal.