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This will happen with posts, too, not just comments. Thanks for any help. I love the app and know not everything will work flawlessly immediately, but I'm curious to know what's going on as it is quite frequent for me

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[–] imkmiaw@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a placeholder for a graphic or emoji. If somebody uses a symbol or an emoji and your device doesn't have it or support it, it gets replaced by that symbol, it shouldn't have to do with the app.

[–] VeganSchnitzel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But in this case someone put their cats' pictures in the comment, so it's definitely not an emoji. Thanks for taking the time to answer, though :)

[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My best guess is emojis from a different system than yours. For example some apple only emojis.

Edit: or maybe a picture format not supported

[–] gvasco@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

OBJ stands for object, which is just a fancy name for a file in programming. What you see displayed is a placeholder for whatever file was meant to show there, probably a picture. Most likely the file failed to get loaded/fetched and could not be displayed. Beyond that I don't think I can provide a more specific reason.

[–] sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think instead of the OBJ box you should see an Emoji. I get that sometimes, too. I don't know if it's a bug or has something to do with Unicode.

[–] VeganSchnitzel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not an emoji, the person included pictures of their cats here. Thanks for answering, though.

[–] sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah Ok, didn't know that this is for pics also, thank you for that info!