Keeble

Keeble

@Keeble

"the bird"

left wing bird, online and trying this " alternative social media" thing again. recently unionized barista. Weekly wikipedia streamer. ❤ @proxy ❤30. Avi: me!

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Keeble
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lexi
@lexi
lexi
@lexi

if you ever wanted to :awoo: in chosts, you're in luck: now you can! 'awoo' sign, showing a wolf howling

i ported the @mutant standard emoji set by @dzuk to cohost with a userscript + a website!

features:

  • it supports the full mutant standard emoji set smiling smiley smiley making a ':3' face smiley making a relaxed face while being headpatted dark elf orc slime transgender flag furry pride 'aro' sign cannabis leaf CRT showing green blocks cascading in a vertical pattern 'awoo' sign, showing a wolf howling paw hand modifier
  • it supports all variations, and has a picker for them hand hand (light sky blue) hand (medium skin tone) paw hand paw hand (light cyan) paw hand (tan fur colour) claw hand claw hand (light sky blue) claw hand (light gray) claw hand claw hand (light sky blue) claw hand (light gray)
  • you can make emojis in the default size paw hand (tan fur colour) or bigger paw hand (tan fur colour)
  • it's fully accessible (automatically sets alt text & title based on emoji metadata, eg alt="paw hand (tan fur colour)" title="paw hand (tan fur colour)")
  • it supports cohost posts as well as comments, and autodetects comment sections
  • you can even use it in other places that support markdown/HTML
  • everyone can see them, even if they do not have the script installed
  • it has a nice UI for picking emojis

emoji picker and variant selector

you can use it at https://mutant.us.to (no userscript required), and install the userscript (what is that?/how do i install that?) from there, and you can open the emoji picker by pressing CTRL+. (and Control+. on macOS) or the smiley making a ':3' face icon next to the old emoji button! and the source code is available on github (but it is a bit messy lol)

EDIT: i forgot to add an update URL, so if you installed it before i edited this in: reinstall the userscript you will get updates now (and there will be a few)

EDIT 2: i released a new update with a bunch of features! https://cohost.org/lexi/post/474136-b-style-font-size

a few technical details for nerds:

Keeble
@Keeble

hello, i am not a tech person. what is a userscript? how do i do this? im totally lost

also speaking as a former IT Trainer: this is a good example of the sorts of assumptions that people who write tools make of What People Who Will Use This Will Already know that's predicated on being vaguely Tech Minded. the documentation for this (really cool!) feature is made in such a way that assumes that EVERYONE knows what a userscript has and how to use it.

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lexi
@lexi

pushed a last second update because the markdown links didn't say the name of the generator before, but should work now!

'awoo' sign, showing a wolf howling

edit: yep, update is live & works :)

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jkap
@jkap

this kicks ass and has me thinkin about adding at least some of the mutant standard emoji to our custom set............

one suggestion: in html mode, you should consider setting the height to var(--emoji-scale), which we calculate for our own custom emoji to have their sizes visually match up with how your browser renders native emoji! (for example, on windows 11 firefox it's set to 1.4em). obvs optional but something to consider!

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jkap
@jkap

thanks!! right now it’s a question of if we Can under the terms of the license (cohost is technically a commercial entity so unsure if we meet the non-commercial requirement) but we’ll see!

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micolithe
@micolithe

For whatever reason I can't seem to get the CTRL+. shortcut to work on linux mint + firefox, i'm baffled, any idea what I could be doing wrong here?

edit: actually it doesn't work on windows either? maybe its a greasemonkey problem.

edit 2: yes it was a greasemonkey problem, if you are having trouble like i was, use tampermonkey instead.

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delan
@delan

so i use afraid.org which is super reliable, but that doesn't support CNAME entries

you probably already know this, but just in case, did you know you can do CNAME records if you use afraid’s secondary service with your own primary? (also works with he.net’s secondary)

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hecko
@hecko

what are either of you talking about‽ literally the first time i used freedns i made a cname on a public domain name with no issues (at least until it went down for unrelated reasons, rip 69.mu)

here i just did it again http://hecko.my.to/ (you can tell it's fresh because there's no ssl yet)

did my account get grandfathered in or something because i know i made it years ago for no specific reason

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amgg
@amgg

ooooh this is super cool!

one little note - when it tries to load the emoji data tampermonkey will pop up with an "A userscript wants to access a cross-origin resource" page the user needs to manually accept, you can add a connect to the metadata block (@connect lxhom.github.io) to prevent that

also it seems to be broken on greasemonkey (happens a lot, usually it's caused by how they sandbox scripts), I'll see if I can get it working on there

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lexi
@lexi

it attributes it on the source code and on the installation/preview website and all of the images generated have that website as an url in it so it should be fine (also dzuk thinks its cool and hasnt pointed out a licensing issue so i think i did it correctly lol)

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