Seemed like emojis in posts / comments would get downvoted to oblivion on Reddit. I don’t see the same thing on Kbin (or other instances / services).

    • numbscrollOP
      2•2 years ago

      😬 Is a fun one. Or if someone’s doing something sketchy / kinda nonsensical but I don’t plan on intervening, I’ll go with 👀 🍵 or 💅

  • Kaldo
    10•2 years ago

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

  • princessofcute
    8•2 years ago

    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

    • numbscrollOP
      6•2 years ago

      Same! I lurked a lot on Reddit because even trivial comments felt like they’d get picked at (or more often just not result in additional conversation). Here I feel much more comfortable typing and not second guessing. Feels good.

      • princessofcute
        3•2 years ago

        Yeah I lurked for a long time on Reddit since one of my first posts on there got downvoted into oblivion by said toxic users, so I was afraid to post or comment for a long time. Here is definitely a lot more comfortable

      • Lunyan
        4•2 years ago

        Me too! I was on reddit for over a decade but mostly just lurked. Here I feel way more inclined to comment, maybe because it’s smaller?

  • Hyacathusarullistad
    4•2 years ago

    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! 👍

    • mohKohn
      1•2 years ago

      I’m so used to non-emoji text that they feel like extreme over-emoting

  • Yewb
    2•2 years ago

    Do we really want to communicate in hieroglyphs again?

  • hetscop
    10•2 years ago

    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

  • mrbigmouth502
    4•2 years ago

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

  • GeekFTW
    28•2 years ago

    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.

  • harmonea
    3•2 years ago

    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.

  • Narrrz
    4•2 years ago

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

  • D-ISS-O-CIA-TED
    3•2 years ago

    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 🌱