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@hongminhee @liaizon I've never really got to the point to add custom emojis for my projects, but I think they as a concept work really well on top of ActivityPub in the form of "Like" activities which have a URL (or even maybe a binary Content directly) to the actual emoji image, but also support alternate text as I described in my sibling message.

@hongminhee I would do the same thing I do for images right now: I add a summary field on the ActivityPub object that designates the image/svg, which then gets translated into an alt text when rendered into HTML. See this as an example: https://marius.federated.id/outbox/1743586392386 (this is an ActivityPub Create for that Image that you see). If you access the object of the Create you get just the plain binary image, but so encapsulated it renders with the alt text.

@reiver that seems to involve a lot of complexity for a a piece of software that theoretically should be quite simple. I don't think I'd implement that for my code.

@reiver does the server in your scenario disseminate the activity to the rest of the fediverse at the published date, or upon receiving it?