Use emojis as if you were a boomer who has just discovered their existence ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
I think Emojis are fine as long as theyโre not being overused
What ๐โโ๏ธ do ๐โโ๏ธ you ๐ซต mean ๐ emojis ๐ are ๐ the ๐ best โค๏ธ
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Why would you want this place to be like reddit on such small, insignificant details? Building an independent, unique identity beyond reddit alternative should be the plan.
Agreed, we need to move beyond Reddit. I personally want to see this (and honestly the Fediverse as a whole) shepherd the internet and social media into a new era more akin to the old internet. Reddit as a platform was destined to fail, imo.
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I choose to use emojis because Lemmy is like the old internet, and in the old internet you couldn't make it through a simple MSN Messenger convo without at least one use of :P or >.< or whatever, so it fits imo.
"old internet" "MSN Messenger"
Feeling positively prehistoric in comparison ๐ฆ
Yes, but only the most obscure ones: ๐งต๐ฅฝ๐ฆ
All the random boxes with characters in them: ๐พ๐ณ๐ ๐๐ผโง๏ธ๐๐นโณ๏ธ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ถ๐โคต๏ธ๐๐๐น๐ดโ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ฒ๐๐โ๏ธโธ๏ธโก๏ธ๐๏ธ๐
Why do they exist?
For signage and i think those kinds of emojis see more use in places like Japan and China hence a lot of them also including their characters too.
I don't tend to use them. But I think in the global scheme of things, I'm not going to get the pitchforks and torches out. ๐ฑ๐ฅ
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Lemmy posts support unicode... so yes? ๐ค
Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. ๐๐ซ๐
Policing how people choose to express themselves is peak Reddit. Letโs not do that.
Never really understood the hard-on redditors got when it came to hating emojis, some are really cute, like this llama! ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Sometimes. When it really fits and adds to what is to be said. Very, very rarely.
Or I can say that when you write a sentence and you have to think about whether to use one, then the answer is no.
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If used properly and in moderation, why not?
Blah, emojis ๐
Btw so what I realized is that the crappy thing about emojis is that they stand out, possibly due to the bright colors.
I mean, is this annoying? ๐ Not really, I think.
But this? ๐คช It breaks the flow of text and pulls attention to itself.
Heck, even the more skin-accurate variants aren't all that annoying: ๐๐ฝ it's just the yellow ones. Why can't we have the basic smilies in more muted colors?
time to pull out those kaomojis back from the shelf ( อกยฐ( อกยฐ อส( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)ส อกยฐ) อกยฐ)
Oh! and OpenMoji has a variant that is just black & white line art. It merges well with text.
It would be relatively easy to configure their font in whatever instance decides it prefers that. Or have a userscript or something to inject the CSS adding it.
Do as you please! I never liked how dictatorial reddit seemed to be against emojis. Can they be over used, sure! But they can also be fun and a quicker way to convey an emotion.
Nah.
wrong ๐๐
I donโt really like using emojis ๐ฃ but I wonโt complain if other people use them I guess ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I used to not do it, but I've been influenced by Bing after talking to it for so long during the closed beta (I guess that this is an effect of subconsciously mirroring it so that I don't get kicked out before the 5 turn limit back in the days haha ๐)
Then again, in diverse online communities, there are various styles and voices that are eventually formed to be what's "acceptable" be the general consensus. As Lemmy is very new, it has yet to find its voice yet... I think ๐ค.
can't wait till lemmy is 5 years old and ppl are saying shit like "daemmy my fasoe now liam tareech" and you think that's arabic but it's just lemmyspeak
I always disliked those new emojis, nothing to do with Reddit, but most of them are positively dumb and don't reflect the feelings I want to show, seriously how did we go from normal text emojis like :) :D :p to stuff like that: ๐๐คฃ๐ ???
I mean come on, that's not what I want to express at all
Nah that's definitely feelings I want to express
I'm not a fan of emojis. They tend not to contribute anything to the discussion and make your reply appear childish in the same was as adding 'lol' as a prefix to your message.
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I'm not really interested in preserving the more pedantic and pointless norms from Reddit. I'm kinda looking forward to seeing what culture emerges here. I don't tend to use Emoji much because they don't occur to me. The text messaging services I grew up with didn't support them for the longest time, so we had emoticons, or would just use role play tags like * shrugs*. The only real trend that actually bothers me with Emoji is when people type out words, then use the corresponding emoji after it. "Hey guys ๐ฌ I just got back from the store ๐ช and took a picture ๐ท of my cat ๐." Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.
in my experience in the last couple years reddit stopped giving a fuck about emojis, the odd comment being like "ewww emojis get out of reddit!!" was like -274
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As someone that wasn't ever particularly active on Reddit, I didn't even know that was a general attitude there. I've generally never understood the hate that some people have for emojis, though. They have their place in certain circumstances and can make communication easier in general sometimes, especially in private, more personal conversations. Tone can be so hard to decipher through text.
I think this might actually be more general than just a Reddit thing. When emojis were relatively new you had a couple of cohorts of kids and some middle aged people who went apeshit (or ๐๐ฉ, as these people could genuinely write) about it, often combining series of them with no ironical distance. This was considered annoying by the rest of society at the time, but when you're past 20 you can't really comment on what the kids are up to.
Then the kids themselves started taking an anti-emoji stance, perhaps after their teachers started using them. Minimalist use is still fine, but excessive use has always been kind of annoying, and is just not a good idea if you want to get your point across in a forum with a broad audience.
time to rev up dat emojiverse lemmy instance, emojemmy? ๐ญ
Bring back the best SMILEYS....aka the ones from Vbulliten forums ;)
Yeah, smileys are rad =^.^=
I like emojis too though ๐ฅณ.
Like a good wine pairing :)
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