I like that their spending and efforts result in more onboarding, but this is just odd. Do their users not want a simple fix made so that they can receive more varied reactions? Why wouldn't you want that?
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Their goal is to kill onboarding, not cause more of it. They don't want a good user experience because that would lead to user retention and more importantly a better reputation for nostr itself. For any users that try their app first, they try their best to filter out all but the most bitcoin culty
Not as wild a theory as it first sounds. Maybe they fear their users would get overwhelmed or confused by too wide a variety of emojis? ðŸ¤
That is famously why Apple has never implemented emojis
Hmm, you mean in iMessage? They've had them enabled a little while now, maybe two years, but they are slightly inconvenient to access. So one often sticks with the classic "haha, !!, ?" set.
I meant like this. We could be a couple dozen rows into this Road To The Future by now

A set of keys for emojis?! That's a terrible idea lol
You're right. Better to start with something like this and then just remove the letters 