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 ❤️
eye twitching
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.
👍
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.
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 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. 🔱🔥
♆
Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. 🙏🫀🙏
(´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡
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? 🤘
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.
👀
Emojis aren’t as bad anymore. Just don’t spam them
😎😎
¯\_(`` ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Blah, emojis 💀
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? 👀 Not really, I think.
But this? 🤪 It breaks the flow of text and pulls attention to itself.
Heck, even the more skin-accurate variants aren’t all that annoying: 👋🏽 it’s just the yellow ones. Why can’t we have the basic smilies in more muted colors?
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.
Pretty simple really, just go back to the roots (:
time to pull out those kaomojis back from the shelf ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
Yeah… I mean it’s not so different from things like MAYUS, italics, bold, etc… OR ALL OF THEM!!!
If you are doing it just for calling for attention to your post and farming for “karma”… then you deserve all the downvotes you get.
But if you do it because you actually want to be expressive in your post, and they are relevant, make sense or help even a bit at delivering what you wanna say, then they are a great resource to use.
😎👍
