Sooo... are we doing emojis here or nah 🤔

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

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

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.

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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.

Yes, but only the most obscure ones: 🧵🥽🦔

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. 🔱🔥

Lemmy posts support unicode... so yes? 🤘

Policing how people choose to express themselves is peak Reddit. Let’s not do that.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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If used properly and in moderation, why not?

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?

I used to not do it, but I've been influenced by Bing after talking to it for so long during the closed beta (I guess that this is an effect of subconsciously mirroring it so that I don't get kicked out before the 5 turn limit back in the days haha 😂)

Then again, in diverse online communities, there are various styles and voices that are eventually formed to be what's "acceptable" be the general consensus. As Lemmy is very new, it has yet to find its voice yet... I think 🤔.

Nah.

I don‘t really like using emojis 😣 but I won‘t complain if other people use them I guess 🤷‍♀️

in my experience in the last couple years reddit stopped giving a fuck about emojis, the odd comment being like "ewww emojis get out of reddit!!" was like -274

I always disliked those new emojis, nothing to do with Reddit, but most of them are positively dumb and don't reflect the feelings I want to show, seriously how did we go from normal text emojis like :) :D :p to stuff like that: 😃🤣😛 ???

I mean come on, that's not what I want to express at all

I'm not a fan of emojis. They tend not to contribute anything to the discussion and make your reply appear childish in the same was as adding 'lol' as a prefix to your message.

I'm not really interested in preserving the more pedantic and pointless norms from Reddit. I'm kinda looking forward to seeing what culture emerges here. I don't tend to use Emoji much because they don't occur to me. The text messaging services I grew up with didn't support them for the longest time, so we had emoticons, or would just use role play tags like * shrugs*. The only real trend that actually bothers me with Emoji is when people type out words, then use the corresponding emoji after it. "Hey guys 👬 I just got back from the store 🏪 and took a picture 📷 of my cat 🐈." Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.

As someone that wasn't ever particularly active on Reddit, I didn't even know that was a general attitude there. I've generally never understood the hate that some people have for emojis, though. They have their place in certain circumstances and can make communication easier in general sometimes, especially in private, more personal conversations. Tone can be so hard to decipher through text.

Bring back the best SMILEYS....aka the ones from Vbulliten forums ;)

WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 2⃣ TRIPLE 3⃣ WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑‍🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🫵 YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Do what you want, if someone gets overly excessive I can just downvote or block them.

Hmm I can't see the text box I'm typing in... Aah there it is :)

These full screen ones might be overdoing it 😉

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I haven't used any thus far on Kbin, and don't really intend to as it feels weird to me, but we're not in Reddit anymore so go for it!

I was a light redditor and had no idea this was a thing, interesting

I have no idea how to type emojis on my windows laptop lol. so whenever I use them I gotta copy+paste. On discord they have shortcodes for them :emojiname: and on twitter there's an emoji picker. no idea how to do it elsewhere...

I use smileys (and I used them back on reddit too). But i wish the webapp had emoji aliasing built in! :smile: