My instance admin is the one from lemmy.world. I hope this instance updates soon, it’s a bit of a bad look for a fediverse service if its biggest instance is running an older version of the software…
EDIT: So I found out why lemmy.world remains on an older version. Turns out there’s some systems in 0.17.4 that limit bot signups, that are not present in 0.18. So until that limiter’s put in place, this instance remains on an older version.
Lemmy 0.18 supports custom emojis now. Maybe you’ll be able to convince your instance admin to add one.
My instance admin is the one from lemmy.world. I hope this instance updates soon, it’s a bit of a bad look for a fediverse service if its biggest instance is running an older version of the software…
EDIT: So I found out why lemmy.world remains on an older version. Turns out there’s some systems in 0.17.4 that limit bot signups, that are not present in 0.18. So until that limiter’s put in place, this instance remains on an older version.
Where I found that
I bet they’re gifs, like on forums, use custom codes for each of them.