# Emojis lost in ActivityPub federated posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-lost-in-activitypub-federated-posts/364729>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** emoji, activitypub\
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-lost-in-activitypub-federated-posts/364729 "2025-05-04T08:46:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![heluecht1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heluecht1/32/501746_2.png) [@heluecht1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/heluecht1)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-lost-in-activitypub-federated-posts/364729/8 "2025-05-04T11:41:22Z")

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Big question is if these emojis are Unicode emojis. If not, then they are normally displayed as images. And inline images aren't supported by many AP systems. Your example `:tada:` for example seems to be an image.

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