The historical reason is that Hexbear implemented emojis before Lemmy did. Lemmy ended up supporting emojis only when Hexbear merged with Lemmy recently. A bunch of our own emojis are cribbed from Hexbear.

[–] Nakoichi@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hexbear reinventing pictographic language.

[–] Erika4sis@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Hexbear reinventing pictographic language.

When I proposed adding :kijetesantakalu: as an emoji, that was supposed to be the first step to adding all of sitelen pona as emojis, thereby fulfilling this prophecy

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

if hexbear reinvents rebus, I'm calling it, alphabets were a mistake.

[–] sorosfootsoldier@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 months ago

Hexbearians need to bring freedom and democracy (emojis) to the poor oppressed people of lemmygrad.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago

20 y/o's vs 30 y/o's

[–] anarchoilluminati@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How can I tell if someone likes or dislikes me without a Stalin heart or PPB emoji?

I'm lost.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Well, uh

Ye just live with that

[–] Seryph@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Now you understand why I use the same like 3 all the time 😔

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Well Jerboa doesn't even give me the option to see them when typing a comment.

[–] Bisexual_Cookie@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wonder which coup is failing atm

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quick, someone check Burkina Faso

[–] ash_ina_dash@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Nooooooooooo the Alliance of Sahel States just got announced :(

[–] sorosfootsoldier@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Patriots are storming the capitol rn but hexbear and cnn are suppressing that news to help Biden win.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did that actually happen at some point?? Now I'm curious lol

[–] Nakoichi@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah last time the site went down it was during the coup attempt in Bolivia

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's eerie.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The news mega went wild right after

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What was being said?? I didn't get a chance to take a look before Hexbear went down.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's back up, but it was a bunch of people telling the admins that it wasn't cool to let the coup happen when the site was down

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm getting old. Damn kids. Thought something actually happened. I've tried to subscribe to Hexbear from Lemmygrad and haven't gotten accepted yet for some reason.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

admins may be busy with the outage atm

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I understand; t'was a while ago.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what's the account name? I'll ask in mod chat and see if anyone knows what happened.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks alot btw!

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

should be the same as this one or 666. If it got accepted I'll double-check

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

a /u/666 got permabanned a year ago -- it's hard to pull up in the modlog, but I think this is why?

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Huh. That wasn't my account. That's fucking weird. Is it -6-6-6-? I discovered Hexbear and Lemmygrad when I made this account. I was banned off Reddit but not here?? Especially because I can still crosspost to Hexbear on this account and haven't been banned for any reason.

If there's any way to verify my identity, let me know. I do promise that wasn't me.

I'm also a male.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just to double check, when you say "subscribe" do you mean joining hexbear comms or are you talking about sending in an application for a hexbear account? if it's the latter, one of the admins suggested resubmitting it as they can't search applications very easily.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Comms? You mean when I type in hexbear.net and try to subscribe? Both, actually. I also tried making an account -6-6-6-.

Will do though! I did try subscribing with this account so I'll resubscribe with it as well. Whatever works.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it :)

[–] LurkingEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pizza shops had a huge spike in order volume around the hexbear headquarters that day too, shit was wild

[–] tombombadil@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hexbear is down. Activate the lemmygrad account

[–] Nakoichi@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Patriots in control.

[–] kristina@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

and im here to eat all the beans in lemmygrad's pantry

fun fact: trans megathread hit 1337 comments and the server crashed. coincidence? i think not

[–] Luna@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 months ago

We flew to close to the sun joever

[–] Erika4sis@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 months ago

"Mr. Admin, a third technical issue has hit the Hexbear"

[–] sorosfootsoldier@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The system is down!

hubabahoo bhoo bhoo

[–] Erika4sis@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The system is down!

♫ Everybody's going to Lemmygrad, have a real good time ♫

[–] Nakoichi@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago

lmao that was the first thing I thought when I read SFS comment.

[–] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Damn so that’s why theres no posts to read in the news megathread. Day basically ruined

[–] Nakoichi@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 months ago

looks like hexbear is back

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 months ago

noo our beautiful garden will be overrun by the jungle

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the update, I was wondering why my treats weren't working

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks/grace/mercy to you...