35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 month ago

    I’d send :-} and :-\ and =P and D= instead of an emoji. As the founding fathers intended.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 month ago

      There’s even more use cases that come up, like being able to use emoji and other fancy symbols anywhere unicode is supported. So you can even program with them. People have taken that idea to the extreme just for fun: https://www.emojicode.org/

      • @[email protected]English
        -4•1 month ago

        Other special symbols are a different thing. For APL language or others.

        They are useful, provided you have them on your keyboard or you have configurable extra keys.

        Symbols specifically for emoji - I mean, people can do what they want with code space, even if I’d rather see another obscure alphabet standardized there. Medieval Armenian or Russian musical notation, for example. Something real .

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 month ago

          How aren’t emoji “real”?

          This just comes across as “old man yells at cloud” to me tbh.