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Yeah they aren't great. But at least we have the blob using emoji kitchen.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The initial Android Jellybean version of the blobmojis are the only emojis that have ever been good, before or since

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Yeah I feel you

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Agreed! Blobmoji were the best and I'm totally not bitter at all that Google killed them like so many other great services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kitkats emojis were also pretty cool, the downfall started with lollipop in my opinion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was just thinking that!

Is there any way to sideload them in?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I have just enough care about this topic to post about how I dont care.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're my favourite emoji flavours, really, besides the blobbies (blobbies are life)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True they are the best plus the turtle through emoji kitchen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a quality emoji. All emojis should have a turtle present.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

may I interest you in a double turtle?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why isn't this the official emoji style for all phones. It should just all be turtles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like the sound of that

[–] noneabove1182 4 points 2 years ago

still so sad about the death of blobbies :'(

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Samsung's Emoji are what I'd imagine would happen if I asked AI to make Apple's emoji's but only with pieces pulled from Google's emoji.

They look pretty damn bad. All around. I'll never understand why they don't at least give up and pay JoyPixels, considering they can't even beat those in quality. πŸ˜‘

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But are they worse than Microsoft's?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk discord is far worse. Look at how they try to massacre my boy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very hard to beat, discord's sucks too

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any good way to use Gboard on the Z Fold? I miss the emoji kitchen but the default Samsung keyboard has support for different layouts depending on if the phone is open or closed (thumb keyboard when it's open and normal when closed) and I need that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have no idea. I assume it will have the same features since Google has their own foldable phone now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, you're right, it works now! It didn't before but yeah they must have added it for the Pixel Fold.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah np, now cook up something good in the emoji kitchen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beautiful! Btw if you want embed your image in a lemmy post/comment just do explanation point, square brackets then image link in parentheses with no space in-between.

![]((https://media.kbin.social/media/4c/2a/4c2a6427bc8e6378fe5ecb52c7166b7264b3ea859b426a156c97636a725a123b.png)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://media.kbin.social/media/4c/2a/4c2a6427bc8e6378fe5ecb52c7166b7264b3ea859b426a156c97636a725a123b.png

Thank you! I'm on Kbin so I don't think I'll be able to see if it worked or not on your end. Looks like Kbin uses the same image attachment format as Mastodon, but Lemmy doesn't support that part of ActivityPub so I've been trying to figure out a good way to get Lemmy users to see my images. πŸ˜” Editing my comments with a direct link to the image after posting it was the best I could come up with...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's fine. There is nothing wrong with that.

Edit: I just realized the URL I tried to use for the example does not work since I used your kbin one or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah I opened the thread in Lemmy and I guess it didn't work, it looks like I just pasted the link again haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

np its fine it should be set up like this. Ik the lemdroid mods were talking about this issue a few weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that's what I did, it just doesn't translate from Kbin to Lemmy correctly and just shows up as a link again. Thank you though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Np happy to at least help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gboard is behaving well on my z fold. Floating on outer screen and normal keyboard on closed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yep works good now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That oneUI 5.0 turtle looks actionable. Look at the legs. It's really obvious they traced the Apple one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

How hard is it for them to use the best turtle. The android turtle.