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I used to use Wire and then I got my friends to use Element. It’s been working great so far. I just wish it had support for emoji skintones in responses.
by NetOpWibby 5y ago
I used to use Wire and then I got my friends to use Element. It’s been working great so far. I just wish it had support for emoji skintones in responses.
- lightspot21 5y agoNot my intent to offend anyone and plus I'm not American so I might not know your culture well enough, but please don't. Why should we insert race in technology when 1) it's not useful and 2) it's not relevant at all. I mean, who even cares whether the smiley face is white or black or whatever else? It's just a smiley face. IMHO there are more significant areas to care for.
- gibolt 5y agoWhy give the option for gender selection or character customization in video games? People care about seeing themselves represented. It doesn't hurt anyone to have options (other than those who have to wade through supporting unicode standards)
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- lucgommans 5y ago> who even cares whether the smiley face is white or black or whatever else? If it doesn't matter, why not let people choose whatever they like? Personally I'm also wondering if having specifically white and specifically black thumbs-ups does not introduce more racial bias rather than the generic yellow default that I was used to, but I did notice people of color using specific colors so perhaps it does matter, at least for some of them. The rest of us can just be on (the afaik neutral) yellow, presuming that makes everyone happy.
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- R0b0t1 5y agoMy skin is blue and I feel oppressed.
- NetOpWibby 5y agoLOL Technology is made for people. People are all sorts of shades. Other chat apps give people the ability to modify skintone on several emoji. Good grief.