diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8fae41ee1..b49929f42 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@
     "@tailwindcss/forms": "^0.5.9",
     "@tailwindcss/typography": "^0.5.15",
     "@tanstack/react-query": "^5.59.13",
-    "@twemoji/svg": "^15.0.0",
     "@types/escape-html": "^1.0.1",
     "@types/http-link-header": "^1.0.3",
     "@types/leaflet": "^1.8.0",
@@ -98,7 +97,6 @@
     "comlink": "^4.4.1",
     "cssnano": "^6.0.0",
     "detect-passive-events": "^2.0.0",
-    "emoji-datasource": "15.0.1",
     "emoji-mart": "^5.6.0",
     "escape-html": "^1.0.3",
     "eslint-plugin-formatjs": "^5.2.2",
diff --git a/src/actions/soapbox.ts b/src/actions/soapbox.ts
index cee62ab4f..cd0170c90 100644
--- a/src/actions/soapbox.ts
+++ b/src/actions/soapbox.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { createSelector } from 'reselect';
 import { getHost } from 'soapbox/actions/instance.ts';
 import { normalizeSoapboxConfig } from 'soapbox/normalizers/index.ts';
 import KVStore from 'soapbox/storage/kv-store.ts';
-import { removeVS16s } from 'soapbox/utils/emoji.ts';
 import { getFeatures } from 'soapbox/utils/features.ts';
 
 import api from '../api/index.ts';
@@ -29,12 +28,6 @@ const getSoapboxConfig = createSelector([
     if (soapbox.get('displayFqn') === undefined) {
       soapboxConfig.set('displayFqn', features.federating);
     }
-
-    // If RGI reacts aren't supported, strip VS16s
-    // https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues/2355
-    if (features.emojiReactsNonRGI) {
-      soapboxConfig.set('allowedEmoji', soapboxConfig.allowedEmoji.map(removeVS16s));
-    }
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/src/components/account.tsx b/src/components/account.tsx
index 4dba320de..f9ffc41cf 100644
--- a/src/components/account.tsx
+++ b/src/components/account.tsx
@@ -214,11 +214,13 @@ const Account = ({
             <LinkEl className='rounded-full' {...linkProps}>
               <Avatar src={account.avatar} size={avatarSize} />
               {emoji && (
-                <Emoji
-                  className='absolute -right-1.5 bottom-0 size-5'
-                  emoji={emoji}
-                  src={emojiUrl}
-                />
+                <div className='absolute -right-1.5 bottom-0'>
+                  {emojiUrl ? (
+                    <img className='size-5' src={emojiUrl} alt={emoji} />
+                  ) : (
+                    <Emoji size={20} emoji={emoji} />
+                  )}
+                </div>
               )}
             </LinkEl>
           </ProfilePopper>
diff --git a/src/components/autosuggest-emoji.tsx b/src/components/autosuggest-emoji.tsx
index fb4a4b4fc..411526b9c 100644
--- a/src/components/autosuggest-emoji.tsx
+++ b/src/components/autosuggest-emoji.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import EmojiComponent from 'soapbox/components/ui/emoji.tsx';
+import HStack from 'soapbox/components/ui/hstack.tsx';
 import { isCustomEmoji } from 'soapbox/features/emoji/index.ts';
 import unicodeMapping from 'soapbox/features/emoji/mapping.ts';
 
@@ -8,11 +10,10 @@ interface IAutosuggestEmoji {
 }
 
 const AutosuggestEmoji: React.FC<IAutosuggestEmoji> = ({ emoji }) => {
-  let url, alt;
+  let elem: React.ReactNode;
 
   if (isCustomEmoji(emoji)) {
-    url = emoji.imageUrl;
-    alt = emoji.colons;
+    elem = <img className='emojione mr-2 block size-4' src={emoji.imageUrl} alt={emoji.colons} />;
   } else {
     const mapping = unicodeMapping[emoji.native] || unicodeMapping[emoji.native.replace(/\uFE0F$/, '')];
 
@@ -20,19 +21,14 @@ const AutosuggestEmoji: React.FC<IAutosuggestEmoji> = ({ emoji }) => {
       return null;
     }
 
-    url = `/packs/emoji/${mapping.unified}.svg`;
-    alt = emoji.native;
+    elem = <EmojiComponent emoji={emoji.native} size={16} />;
   }
 
   return (
-    <div className='flex flex-row items-center justify-start text-[14px] leading-[18px]' data-testid='emoji'>
-      <img
-        className='emojione mr-2 block size-4'
-        src={url}
-        alt={alt}
-      />
-      {emoji.colons}
-    </div>
+    <HStack space={2} alignItems='center' justifyContent='start' className='text-[14px] leading-[18px]' data-testid='emoji'>
+      {elem}
+      <span>{emoji.colons}</span>
+    </HStack>
   );
 };
 
diff --git a/src/components/emoji-graphic.tsx b/src/components/emoji-graphic.tsx
index 7facaa4ad..207fb409d 100644
--- a/src/components/emoji-graphic.tsx
+++ b/src/components/emoji-graphic.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const EmojiGraphic: React.FC<IEmojiGraphic> = ({ emoji }) => {
   return (
     <div className='flex items-center justify-center'>
       <div className='rounded-full bg-gray-100 p-8 dark:bg-gray-800'>
-        <Emoji className='size-24' emoji={emoji} />
+        <Emoji size={96} emoji={emoji} />
       </div>
     </div>
   );
diff --git a/src/components/status-action-button.tsx b/src/components/status-action-button.tsx
index b72218b4d..2819adaa3 100644
--- a/src/components/status-action-button.tsx
+++ b/src/components/status-action-button.tsx
@@ -46,8 +46,12 @@ const StatusActionButton = forwardRef<HTMLButtonElement, IStatusActionButton>((p
   const renderIcon = () => {
     if (emoji) {
       return (
-        <span className='flex size-6 items-center justify-center'>
-          <Emoji className='size-full p-0.5' emoji={emoji.name} src={emoji.url} />
+        <span className='flex size-6 items-center justify-center p-0.5'>
+          {emoji.url ? (
+            <img src={emoji.url} alt={emoji.name} className='w-full' />
+          ) : (
+            <Emoji size={18} emoji={emoji.name} />
+          )}
         </span>
       );
     } else {
diff --git a/src/components/ui/emoji-selector.tsx b/src/components/ui/emoji-selector.tsx
index 2487bb127..6d4b716e0 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/emoji-selector.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/emoji-selector.tsx
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ const EmojiButton: React.FC<IEmojiButton> = ({ emoji, className, onClick, tabInd
 
   return (
     <button className={clsx(className)} onClick={handleClick} tabIndex={tabIndex}>
-      <EmojiComponent className='size-6 duration-100 hover:scale-110' emoji={emoji} />
+      <div className='flex items-center justify-center duration-100 hover:scale-110'>
+        <EmojiComponent size={24} emoji={emoji} />
+      </div>
     </button>
   );
 };
diff --git a/src/components/ui/emoji.tsx b/src/components/ui/emoji.tsx
index da3449ccb..75cc4d111 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/emoji.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/emoji.tsx
@@ -1,30 +1,19 @@
-import { removeVS16s, toCodePoints } from 'soapbox/utils/emoji.ts';
-
-interface IEmoji extends React.ImgHTMLAttributes<HTMLImageElement> {
+interface IEmoji {
   /** Unicode emoji character. */
-  emoji?: string;
+  emoji: string;
+  /** Size to render the emoji. */
+  size?: number;
 }
 
 /** A single emoji image. */
 const Emoji: React.FC<IEmoji> = (props): JSX.Element | null => {
-  const { emoji, alt, src, ...rest } = props;
-
-  let filename;
-
-  if (emoji) {
-    const codepoints = toCodePoints(removeVS16s(emoji));
-    filename = codepoints.join('-');
-  }
-
-  if (!filename && !src) return null;
+  const { emoji, size = 16 } = props;
+  const px = `${size}px`;
 
   return (
-    <img
-      draggable='false'
-      alt={alt || emoji}
-      src={src || `/packs/emoji/${filename}.svg`}
-      {...rest}
-    />
+    <div className='inline-flex items-center justify-center font-emoji leading-[0]' style={{ width: px, height: px, fontSize: px }}>
+      {emoji}
+    </div>
   );
 };
 
diff --git a/src/features/compose/editor/nodes/emoji-node.tsx b/src/features/compose/editor/nodes/emoji-node.tsx
index 4c7155d00..d29f24af2 100644
--- a/src/features/compose/editor/nodes/emoji-node.tsx
+++ b/src/features/compose/editor/nodes/emoji-node.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { $applyNodeReplacement, DecoratorNode } from 'lexical';
 
-import Component from 'soapbox/components/ui/emoji.tsx';
 import { isNativeEmoji, type Emoji } from 'soapbox/features/emoji/index.ts';
 
 import type {
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@ type SerializedEmojiNode = Spread<{
   version: 1;
 }, SerializedLexicalNode>;
 
-class EmojiNode extends DecoratorNode<JSX.Element> {
+class EmojiNode extends DecoratorNode<React.ReactNode> {
 
   __emoji: Emoji;
 
@@ -77,12 +76,12 @@ class EmojiNode extends DecoratorNode<JSX.Element> {
     }
   }
 
-  decorate(): JSX.Element {
+  decorate(): React.ReactNode {
     const emoji = this.__emoji;
     if (isNativeEmoji(emoji)) {
-      return <Component emoji={emoji.native} alt={emoji.colons} className='emojione size-4' />;
+      return emoji.native;
     } else {
-      return <Component src={emoji.imageUrl} alt={emoji.colons} className='emojione size-4' />;
+      return <img src={emoji.imageUrl} alt={emoji.colons} className='emojione size-4' />;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/features/compose/editor/plugins/autosuggest-plugin.tsx b/src/features/compose/editor/plugins/autosuggest-plugin.tsx
index 6efc85369..af5eb3e66 100644
--- a/src/features/compose/editor/plugins/autosuggest-plugin.tsx
+++ b/src/features/compose/editor/plugins/autosuggest-plugin.tsx
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import { clearComposeSuggestions, fetchComposeSuggestions } from 'soapbox/actions/compose.ts';
 import { chooseEmoji } from 'soapbox/actions/emojis.ts';
 import AutosuggestEmoji from 'soapbox/components/autosuggest-emoji.tsx';
+import { isNativeEmoji } from 'soapbox/features/emoji/index.ts';
 import { useAppDispatch } from 'soapbox/hooks/useAppDispatch.ts';
 import { useCompose } from 'soapbox/hooks/useCompose.ts';
 import { selectAccount } from 'soapbox/selectors/index.ts';
@@ -316,7 +317,11 @@ const AutosuggestPlugin = ({
         if (typeof suggestion === 'object') {
           if (!suggestion.id) return;
           dispatch(chooseEmoji(suggestion));
-          replaceMatch($createEmojiNode(suggestion));
+          if (isNativeEmoji(suggestion)) {
+            replaceMatch(new TextNode(suggestion.native));
+          } else {
+            replaceMatch($createEmojiNode(suggestion));
+          }
         } else if (suggestion[0] === '#') {
           (node as TextNode).setTextContent(`${suggestion} `);
           node.select();
diff --git a/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker-dropdown.tsx b/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker-dropdown.tsx
index bdae364b3..3a528c267 100644
--- a/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker-dropdown.tsx
+++ b/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker-dropdown.tsx
@@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ const EmojiPickerDropdown: React.FC<IEmojiPickerDropdown> = ({
           skin={handleSkinTone}
           emojiSize={22}
           emojiButtonSize={34}
-          set='twitter'
           theme={theme}
           i18n={getI18n()}
           skinTonePosition='search'
diff --git a/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker.tsx b/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker.tsx
index a6dc860ff..3407c76c8 100644
--- a/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker.tsx
+++ b/src/features/emoji/components/emoji-picker.tsx
@@ -1,20 +1,13 @@
-import spriteSheet from 'emoji-datasource/img/twitter/sheets/32.png';
 import { Picker as EmojiPicker } from 'emoji-mart';
 import { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
 
 import data from '../data.ts';
 
-const getSpritesheetURL = () => spriteSheet;
-
-const getImageURL = (_set: string, name: string) => {
-  return `/packs/emoji/${name}.svg`;
-};
-
 const Picker: React.FC<any> = (props) => {
   const ref = useRef(null);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    const input = { ...props, data, ref, getImageURL, getSpritesheetURL };
+    const input = { ...props, data, ref };
 
     new EmojiPicker(input);
   }, []);
diff --git a/src/features/emoji/index.ts b/src/features/emoji/index.ts
index 2c4995dae..1ff9f555d 100644
--- a/src/features/emoji/index.ts
+++ b/src/features/emoji/index.ts
@@ -67,9 +67,7 @@ const convertCustom = (shortname: string, filename: string) => {
 };
 
 const convertUnicode = (c: string) => {
-  const { unified, shortcode } = unicodeMapping[c];
-
-  return `<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="${c}" title=":${shortcode}:" src="/packs/emoji/${unified}.svg" />`;
+  return c;
 };
 
 const convertEmoji = (str: string, customEmojis: any) => {
diff --git a/src/utils/emoji.test.ts b/src/utils/emoji.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7587e57a5..000000000
--- a/src/utils/emoji.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-
-import {
-  removeVS16s,
-  toCodePoints,
-} from './emoji.ts';
-
-const ASCII_HEART = '❤'; // '\u2764\uFE0F'
-const RED_HEART_RGI = '❤️'; // '\u2764'
-const JOY = '😂';
-
-describe('removeVS16s()', () => {
-  it('removes Variation Selector-16 characters from emoji', () => {
-    // Sanity check
-    expect(ASCII_HEART).not.toBe(RED_HEART_RGI);
-
-    // It normalizes an emoji with VS16s
-    expect(removeVS16s(RED_HEART_RGI)).toBe(ASCII_HEART);
-
-    // Leaves a regular emoji alone
-    expect(removeVS16s(JOY)).toBe(JOY);
-  });
-});
-
-describe('toCodePoints()', () => {
-  it('converts a plain emoji', () => {
-    expect(toCodePoints('😂')).toEqual(['1f602']);
-  });
-
-  it('converts a VS16 emoji', () => {
-    expect(toCodePoints(RED_HEART_RGI)).toEqual(['2764', 'fe0f']);
-  });
-
-  it('converts an ASCII character', () => {
-    expect(toCodePoints(ASCII_HEART)).toEqual(['2764']);
-  });
-
-  it('converts a sequence emoji', () => {
-    expect(toCodePoints('🇺🇸')).toEqual(['1f1fa', '1f1f8']);
-  });
-});
diff --git a/src/utils/emoji.ts b/src/utils/emoji.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d6da69d1..000000000
--- a/src/utils/emoji.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-// Taken from twemoji-parser
-// https://github.com/twitter/twemoji-parser/blob/a97ef3994e4b88316812926844d51c296e889f76/src/index.js
-
-/** Remove Variation Selector-16 characters from emoji */
-// https://emojipedia.org/variation-selector-16/
-const removeVS16s = (rawEmoji: string): string => {
-  const vs16RegExp = /\uFE0F/g;
-  const zeroWidthJoiner = String.fromCharCode(0x200d);
-  return rawEmoji.indexOf(zeroWidthJoiner) < 0 ? rawEmoji.replace(vs16RegExp, '') : rawEmoji;
-};
-
-/** Convert emoji into an array of Unicode codepoints */
-const toCodePoints = (unicodeSurrogates: string): string[] => {
-  const points = [];
-  let char = 0;
-  let previous = 0;
-  let i = 0;
-  while (i < unicodeSurrogates.length) {
-    char = unicodeSurrogates.charCodeAt(i++);
-    if (previous) {
-      points.push((0x10000 + ((previous - 0xd800) << 10) + (char - 0xdc00)).toString(16));
-      previous = 0;
-    } else if (char > 0xd800 && char <= 0xdbff) {
-      previous = char;
-    } else {
-      points.push(char.toString(16));
-    }
-  }
-  return points;
-};
-
-export {
-  removeVS16s,
-  toCodePoints,
-};
diff --git a/tailwind.config.ts b/tailwind.config.ts
index 50c0d9e3d..8e197193e 100644
--- a/tailwind.config.ts
+++ b/tailwind.config.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const config: Config = {
         base: '0.9375rem',
       },
       fontFamily: {
-        'sans': [
+        sans: [
           'Soapbox i18n',
           'Inter',
           'ui-sans-serif',
@@ -45,11 +45,20 @@ const config: Config = {
           'Segoe UI Symbol',
           'Noto Color Emoji',
         ],
-        'mono': [
+        mono: [
           'Roboto Mono',
           'ui-monospace',
           'mono',
         ],
+        emoji: [
+          'Segoe UI Emoji',
+          'Segoe UI Symbol',
+          'Segoe UI',
+          'Apple Color Emoji',
+          'Twemoji Mozilla',
+          'Noto Color Emoji',
+          'Android Emoji',
+        ],
       },
       spacing: {
         '4.5': '1.125rem',
diff --git a/vite.config.ts b/vite.config.ts
index c056a0a4d..7ca8ca508 100644
--- a/vite.config.ts
+++ b/vite.config.ts
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ export default defineConfig(() => {
       }),
       viteStaticCopy({
         targets: [{
-          src: './node_modules/@twemoji/svg/*',
-          dest: 'packs/emoji/',
-        }, {
           src: './src/instance',
           dest: '.',
         }, {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index e1add8d3e..9a05530f0 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2525,11 +2525,6 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@trysound/sax/-/sax-0.2.0.tgz#cccaab758af56761eb7bf37af6f03f326dd798ad"
   integrity sha512-L7z9BgrNEcYyUYtF+HaEfiS5ebkh9jXqbszz7pC0hRBPaatV0XjSD3+eHrpqFemQfgwiFF0QPIarnIihIDn7OA==
 
-"@twemoji/svg@^15.0.0":
-  version "15.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@twemoji/svg/-/svg-15.0.0.tgz#0e3828c654726f1848fe11f31ef4e8a75854cc7f"
-  integrity sha512-ZSPef2B6nBaYnfgdTbAy4jgW95o7pi2xPGwGCU+WMTxo7J6B1lMPTWwSq/wTuiMq+N0khQ90CcvYp1wFoQpo/w==
-
 "@types/aria-query@^5.0.1":
   version "5.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/aria-query/-/aria-query-5.0.1.tgz#3286741fb8f1e1580ac28784add4c7a1d49bdfbc"
@@ -4132,11 +4127,6 @@ electron-to-chromium@^1.5.28:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/electron-to-chromium/-/electron-to-chromium-1.5.28.tgz#aee074e202c6ee8a0030a9c2ef0b3fe9f967d576"
   integrity sha512-VufdJl+rzaKZoYVUijN13QcXVF5dWPZANeFTLNy+OSpHdDL5ynXTF35+60RSBbaQYB1ae723lQXHCrf4pyLsMw==
 
-emoji-datasource@15.0.1:
-  version "15.0.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/emoji-datasource/-/emoji-datasource-15.0.1.tgz#6cc7676e4d48d7559c2e068ffcacf84ec653584c"
-  integrity sha512-aF5Q6LCKXzJzpG4K0ETiItuzz0xLYxNexR9qWw45/shuuEDWZkOIbeGHA23uopOSYA/LmeZIXIFsySCx+YKg2g==
-
 emoji-mart@^5.6.0:
   version "5.6.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/emoji-mart/-/emoji-mart-5.6.0.tgz#71b3ed0091d3e8c68487b240d9d6d9a73c27f023"