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

  • redimk
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    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.

    • @VeganSchnitzelOP
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      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 :)

  • GVasco
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @VeganSchnitzelOP
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      32 years ago

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