AnimalsDream to Unpopular OpinionEnglish • 2 months ago[Lemmy] forget up/down votes. Lemmy should embrace emoji reacts like Misskey.message-square30fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down126file-text
arrow-up198arrow-down1message-square[Lemmy] forget up/down votes. Lemmy should embrace emoji reacts like Misskey.AnimalsDream to Unpopular OpinionEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@billbasherlinkEnglish5•2 months agoI would say solely doing this would be unpopular and I wouldn’t be for it. I could see it working. Properties: Assign each emoji an up/downvote and keep the current system. Hitting an emoji also does one of these. Have a separate bar for emojis that is collapsed by default Make emojis optional so you can still up/downvote
minus-squarekopper [they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months ago Make emojis optional so you can still up/downvote modern not-misskey implementations of federated emoji reactions do separate likes from reactions, if lemmy doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel (they have no reason to!), this will most likely be how it’ll work
I would say solely doing this would be unpopular and I wouldn’t be for it.
I could see it working. Properties:
Assign each emoji an up/downvote and keep the current system. Hitting an emoji also does one of these.
Have a separate bar for emojis that is collapsed by default
Make emojis optional so you can still up/downvote
modern not-misskey implementations of federated emoji reactions do separate likes from reactions, if lemmy doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel (they have no reason to!), this will most likely be how it’ll work