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Re:X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm by kortilla on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @04:47PM (#41061901)
That’s like saying you can put pictures of the letters you need in a post to form words. It’s completely impractical in systems that even allow you to upload pictures and impossible for anything based on Unicode only input
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Re:X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm by Dig1t on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @04:57PM (#41062009)
Yes but pretty much every single medium where you can use an emoji you can upload a picture.

Signal, iMessage, X, FaceBook, etc.

This thread is specifically about X so that’s what I mostly am talking about here.

But pretty much every communication medium being used allows you to upload pictures. It doesn’t make any sense to me why you’d remove the emoji and not also try to censor all pictures of guns.

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Re:X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm by kortilla on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:15PM (#41072901)
Uploading pictures isn’t enough. Placing emojis in sentences in order is required for anything more than a reaction emoji to the whole thing.

You cannot do that on signal, X, Facebook, etc.

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