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I'm in the "Use em if you wanna as they can easily accentuate points you try to make, and can help with understanding tone, but if you put more than like...3-4 max in 1 comment you should probably rethink your life" camp.

I am fine with them, especially since they can be used to indicate the tone of a comment that would otherwise be difficult to discern. However, when you do that every other word as emoji thing (like the various copypasta that go around) or you put hand claps after every word, then I will hate you for the rest of my life and haunt you from the grave.

I thought that emojis didn't fit in with the aesthetics of reddit and they don't fit in with the aesthetics of kbin either. That said, emoji hate on reddit was dumb and performative because it wasn't about a slight aesthetic preference, it was about seeming cool to the ingroup by attacking people for being normies

Look I grew up with MSN, I was waiting for years for emojis to come back into use. Let me have this 😁

😍😍😍 I LOVE EMOJIS 😍😍😍

FITE ME 💪😠

I'd like to see more lenny faces (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)

Judging by the comments it looks like all the extreme emoji haters are the toxic people who refuse to leave Reddit. I love that for the most part the people that left Reddit and are active in Kbin/Lemmy aren't the super toxic ones that frequented Reddit, it's really a breath of fresh air

Just use them with tact and I don't think anyone really cares - on reddit or on here

Emojis are part of how people speak online, I always found it weird how big a deal people made out of people using them on Reddit

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There was a bit of discussion about this on the Lemmy side a few weeks back and the consensus seems to be: you do you.

They aid in communication, especially to convey tone, or sarcasm, or simply the user's feelings. What's not to ❤️?

Do what you want with them. It doesn't really bother me either way.

I actually think they're a lot less annoying than some of the other attempted expressive shortcuts common to Reddit.

🙄 > /s
😝 > jk
🤣 > lol
🤦‍♂️ > *facepalm*

And so on. They're obnoxious if they're used like punctuation or in place of entire words and sentences, but to indicate tone I think they're great! 👍

I'm OK with them. There's definitely such a thing as overusing them, but I think they can be useful for conveying tone.

Emojis are fine as a general thing; it's when the tween memelords can't post one without at least four more in a row that I get disgusted.

There should be a decent ratio of actual content to emojis.

Us vs. them is as bad as ever. Just use emoji if you want, but don’t overuse them? Live and let live I say.

I made a friend recently who likes to use the plant emoji. It's really sweet and refreshing, and it feels calming somehow. She's very nice to me 🌱

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Do we really want to communicate in hieroglyphs again?

I personally dislike them, but do what makes you feel good

I don’t really use emojis because hunting specific ones down can feel like a chore and I wouldn’t even know which ones were appropriate. That said, I could care less if others use them.

I find them annoying when overused (using multiple in one comment, especially the trend of putting one between every single word) and when the comment is only emoji, but they're fine in moderation.

Eh, I don’t really like them but that’s mainly just the art style. I didn’t mind when forums would have smiley faces and stuff because people usually didn’t overdo them.

Idc for their usage , I use them myself sometime ❕

Also OOTL wy reddit hates them so much

I'll say this though : if you ever catch me use 🙃 , take me out back and shoot me like Old Yeller ‼️

honestly the only one i use is 😳