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).
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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’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.
Agree… or the comments that are solely emoji. Unless it’s meme I’d rather see actual thoughts in text format.
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I’ve violated my own rule like 5 times in the past two days. 👀 ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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😍😍😍 I LOVE EMOJIS 😍😍😍
FITE ME 💪😠
YASSS 💅
Look I grew up with MSN, I was waiting for years for emojis to come back into use. Let me have this 😁
My people
MSN AND Yahoo… (And IRC and ICQ)
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!
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
I’d like to see more lenny faces (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)
Perhaps you’d like my Easy Emoticon script?
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You can also hit
⊞ Win + .and go to the emoticons section.
lenny faces for lemmy!
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
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I’ve got the horses…
David Lynch’s latest work?
Emojis are part of how people speak online, I always found it weird how big a deal people made out of people using them on Reddit
Just use them with tact and I don’t think anyone really cares - on reddit or on here
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
They aid in communication, especially to convey tone, or sarcasm, or simply the user’s feelings. What’s not to ❤️?
I’m OK with them. There’s definitely such a thing as overusing them, but I think they can be useful for conveying tone.
Do what you want with them. It doesn’t really bother me either way.
