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 # Key to symbols used on this wiki
 
-✔ == **added to live website** (app is listed somewhere on fediverse.party)
+:heavy_check_mark: == **added to live website** (app is listed somewhere on fediverse.party)
 
-🎉 == **projects that have successfully federated with this protocol**
+:tada: == **projects that have successfully federated with this protocol**
 
-✒ == **newly added to this page** (added, not altered. Only @lostinlight to remove please)
-
-✖ == **dead project** (we list these so nobody adds them thinking they're still alive, or in case we made a mistake and it turns out not to be dead after all, or in case development is restarted).
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+:black_nib: == **newly added to this page** (added, not altered. Only @lostinlight to remove please)
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