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).
Only if they’re OG emoticons. Get those emojis off my lawn. /oldman
:-)
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It has never been a problem. You do you. I use them myself from time to time. On IM I even use them all the time. I think people have less of a problem with emojis themselves but more with people who use them in a stupid way. You know what I mean.
You: [Make a well thought out argument for X]
Them: Oh! You really believe X?!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just won the discussion. Delete your account, you are blocked, byebye!
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! 👍
I’m so used to non-emoji text that they feel like extreme over-emoting
I am fine with them, especially since they can be used to indicate the tone of a comment that would otherwise be difficult to discern. However, when you do that every other word as emoji thing (like the various copypasta that go around) or you put hand claps after every word, then I will hate you for the rest of my life and haunt you from the grave.
I’m still so used to being downvoted for emojis, I lowkey get worried to use them here 🥲
I don’t really use emojis because hunting specific ones down can feel like a chore and I wouldn’t even know which ones were appropriate. That said, I could care less if others use them.
Us vs. them is as bad as ever. Just use emoji if you want, but don’t overuse them? Live and let live I say.
Look I grew up with MSN, I was waiting for years for emojis to come back into use. Let me have this 😁
Oh gods, I missed those icons. It just made me realise that it’s not like I dislike emojis, I just don’t like how they look.
Exactly, time to bring back the 90s!
My people
MSN AND Yahoo… (And IRC and ICQ)
I’m OK with them. There’s definitely such a thing as overusing them, but I think they can be useful for conveying tone.
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
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.
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?
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
I find them annoying when overused (using multiple in one comment, especially the trend of putting one between every single word) and when the comment is only emoji, but they’re fine in moderation.
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I’d like to see more lenny faces (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)
lenny faces for lemmy!
Perhaps you’d like my Easy Emoticon script?
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Eh, I don’t really like them but that’s mainly just the art style. I didn’t mind when forums would have smiley faces and stuff because people usually didn’t overdo them.
They aid in communication, especially to convey tone, or sarcasm, or simply the user’s feelings. What’s not to ❤️?
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I’ve got the horses…
David Lynch’s latest work?
