I don’t care either way, but I always thought it was funny how reddit was so vehemently anti-emoji

  • LittleKerr
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    482 years ago

    Use emojis as if you were a boomer who has just discovered their existence 👌👌👌😄😍😍😍

    • DreamySweet
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      182 years ago

      Oh😁😁 man❗❗That’s👆👆👆👆👆👆such a 😎cool😎 way to type⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️!!❗!

  • Garatron
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    262 years ago

    I think Emojis are fine as long as they’re not being overused

  • @TeaHands
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    212 years ago

    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.

    • Lollerskater
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      162 years ago

      “old internet” “MSN Messenger”

      Feeling positively prehistoric in comparison 🦕

    • Ataraxia
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      22 years ago

      Wouldn’t that make then emotes?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        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 😁

  • Leone
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    212 years ago

    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.

    • lunar_parking
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      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.

    • PumpedSardines
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      52 years ago

      All the random boxes with characters in them: 🚾🈳🛅🛂🚼⚧️🛗💹✳️🈯️🔣🚮📶🈁⤵️🆓🆖🈹📴⚛️🈚️🈲🆘🆑♋️☸️✡️🕉️🆚

      Why do they exist?

      • MrScottyTay
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        72 years ago

        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.

  • HeartyBeast
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    152 years ago

    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. 🔱🔥

  • Dirk Darkly
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    122 years ago

    Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. 🙏🫀🙏

  • @WhoRoger
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    112 years ago

    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?

    • kill
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      32 years ago

      time to pull out those kaomojis back from the shelf ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)

    • Ferk
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      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.

    • Ferk
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      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.

  • AnonymousLlama
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    92 years ago

    Never really understood the hard-on redditors got when it came to hating emojis, some are really cute, like this llama! 🦙🦙🦙

  • zekiz
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    82 years ago

    Emojis aren’t as bad anymore. Just don’t spam them

  • Ni
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    62 years ago

    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.