diff --git a/components/notification/NotificationCard.vue b/components/notification/NotificationCard.vue
index 69b0438f0..a3d0eca8f 100644
--- a/components/notification/NotificationCard.vue
+++ b/components/notification/NotificationCard.vue
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ import type { mastodon } from 'masto'
 const { notification } = defineProps<{
   notification: mastodon.v1.Notification
 }>()
+
+const { t } = useI18n()
+
+// well-known emoji reactions types Elk does not support yet
+const unsupportedEmojiReactionTypes = ['pleroma:emoji_reaction', 'reaction']
+if (unsupportedEmojiReactionTypes.includes(notification.type))
+  console.warn(`[DEV] ${t('notification.missing_type')} '${notification.type}' (notification.id: ${notification.id})`)
 </script>
 
 <template>
@@ -88,7 +95,8 @@ const { notification } = defineProps<{
     <template v-else-if="notification.type === 'mention' || notification.type === 'poll' || notification.type === 'status'">
       <StatusCard :status="notification.status!" />
     </template>
-    <template v-else>
+    <template v-else-if="!unsupportedEmojiReactionTypes.includes(notification.type)">
+      <!-- prevent showing errors for dev for known emoji reaction types -->
       <!-- type 'favourite' and 'reblog' should always rendered by NotificationGroupedLikes -->
       <div text-red font-bold>
         [DEV] {{ $t('notification.missing_type') }} '{{ notification.type }}'