I don’t care either way, but I always thought it was funny how reddit was so vehemently anti-emoji
Use emojis as if you were a boomer who has just discovered their existence 👌👌👌😄😍😍😍
Oh😁😁 man❗❗That’s👆👆👆👆👆👆such a 😎cool😎 way to type⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️!!❗!
I love my 🆕 ⌨️‼️
I think Emojis are fine as long as they’re not being overused
What 💁♀️ do 🏃♂️ you 🫵 mean 💀 emojis 😃 are 😌 the 🙀 best ❤️
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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.
Yes, but only the most obscure ones: 🧵🥽🦔
All the random boxes with characters in them: 🚾🈳🛅🛂🚼⚧️🛗💹✳️🈯️🔣🚮📶🈁⤵️🆓🆖🈹📴⚛️🈚️🈲🆘🆑♋️☸️✡️🕉️🆚
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 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 🦕
Wouldn’t that make then emotes?
Those are emoticons yes, but they were just saying that emoticons were endemic to old internet, so now that we have something better we may as well use it 😁
Better? Not at all, (◕‿◕✿) will always be so much better than modern emojis
Indeed.
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Policing how people choose to express themselves is peak Reddit. Let’s not do that.
Never really understood the hard-on redditors got when it came to hating emojis, some are really cute, like this llama! 🦙🦙🦙
I love the way this guy 🪰 smiles.
It’s fantastic.
No smile for Apple, unfortunately. :(
Yeah that fly’s a certified freak
Lemmy posts support unicode… so yes? 🤘
Emojis aren’t as bad anymore. Just don’t spam them
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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.
It seldom occurs to me to use them if they’re not provided by the UI of the platform.
Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. 🙏🫀🙏
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 👬 I just got back from the store 🏪 and took a picture 📷 of my cat 🐈.” Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.
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. 🔱🔥
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If used properly and in moderation, why not?
