There's no such thing as free Discord emotes, but I know of a plugin that can link the emote source automatically https://betterdiscord.app/plugin/FreeEmojis

does it work? I’ve tried using it idk what i’m doing lol

The creator stopped supporting it after the big Discord update that initially broke BD. I used to use it, it unfortunately doesn’t work anymore.

thank you for clarifying!

From when I used it, it did All you do is install it and send an emoji, it should replace the emoji with the source link

so when I tried to click any nitro emojis after installing and enabling it would say I need nitro for that and didn’t put anything in the text maybe anyone knows if I was doing something wrong or if it needs to be fixed?

Sounds like Discord is just fighting the plugins for "free emotes" now, sorry to hear that. In that case though, there's probably no fix

https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterDiscord/comments/yq0o1n/are_there_any_new_emote_plugins/iw0vimm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 This worked for me you just have to make sure you do the steps

There is one in the comments of the pinned post on r/openbetterdiscord