Oddbean new post about login | logout What does the ':' reaction to a note mean? It's quite common. I know the '+' and '-' are like up/down votes (the '-' almost never used), and the majority of reactions are emojis. But I don't know if the ':' has special meaning or is just like an emoji with some cultural meaning I'm unaware of.
My guess is it's a client bug somewhere lol
Does it become a client bug the moment the NIP changes making the client wrong? If so, then yes it is a client bug. But I don't feel too badly about it because it didn't used to be a client bug.
It's not a single character, it's a full alt emoji, if you're seeing just : it's because you're truncating it expecting a single char. They usually are something like this :smiley:
That makes sense! I think that is the correct answer. :
Or maybe it's a ":)" or ":-\" or similar. But yes I'm only looking at the first character.
life is what you make it. i associate : with associations
me too
the event should have a tag "emoji" with a url to use instead of the text
I see that now. I looked at the full statistics of all reactions in my database and I don't even see a single ":)" they are all custom emoji reactions as you say. I didn't know custom emojis changed the core reactions NIP-25, I thought it was confined to NIP-30. So anyhow now I'm going to render them as □ instead of : rather than try to suppor it.