had a flash of partially-formed, mostly-joking, maybe actually good thought:

> Boycott emojis 100% everywhere they appear.

Emojis constrain the expanse and nuance of your expression into a preselected set. and you didn't design the set. and you don't know who did. and it's an implicit shared language with other people who also didn't make these choices - in other words: a collective linguistic prison we're all choosing to occupy together.

I'm sure there is a bunch of "scholarship" about this already, but it just crossed my mind for the first time now.

which emoji should I pick to convey the above thought and my feelings about it?

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Emojis are newspeak confirmed 🫨

I miss emoticons :-(

:D

:-D

Nostr fixes this! BYO emojis!

This is true. 👀

I'm mixed on emoji. I like that we can attach some metadata to our words, but agree that how its received is ambiguous

you changed your avatar. talk about metadata!

Still needs work, but sets expectations better than the one from 2003

I do :110percent: design the set

Don't stop there! Fuck words. You didn't invent English. You didn't make up the words you're using. Plug right into my brain nonverbally or I'm not interested!

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Okay??? Just post reaction images instead then...