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I do not use emojis.
ಠ︵ಠ
Especially the "regular" emoji that are used everywhere else really feel out of place here
this one. only this one:
We do a little posting
(・へ・)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
(－‸ლ)
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
ಠ_ಠ
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
xDˣᴰ
Do you copy and paste every time you use text emojis with specail characters? Do you have them saved on your phone/computer for easy access?
Sync has a ton built in, so just a button click.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ಠ_ಠ
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
(👁 ͜ʖ👁)
(งツ)ว
ʘ‿ʘ
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
(シ_ _)シ
and 
All of the above.
I resisted using emojis for a long time, but I changed jobs during Covid and was working from home permanently. I suddenly worked with a bunch of people I had never met before, and I realized that these people don't know my demeanor, so they don't know how to read my tone. I found emojis are almost necessary to convey tone in this situation. And after that, it kinda stuck.
Finally, an emoji that's worth being that big
You can't go wrong with a table flips (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
they just make me (ノ｀´)ノ ~┻━┻
and then I like to ─=≡Σ((((╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Personally, I'm OK with emoji as long as you don't spam them (3+ times the same emoji is spamming imo)
Instance admins can add images to be used as emojis via the emoji picker. 
I'm a fan of emojis that I can hear. 
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I am old school :)
ASCII alone already does offer a rather wide range of emotions, no need for unicode. :D
My usage is fairly restricted:
- old school :^) for non-sarcastic irony
- (¬¬) for eye rolling
- shorthand emojis (e.g. if talking about Stardew Valley, instead of "the four hearts event" I might type "the 4♥ event")
- as a way to avoid a specific word for metalinguistic reasons (e.g. "⟨dog⟩ is the signifier, 🐶 is the signified")
My keyboard has a built in text face keyboard
( ≧∀≦)ノ
I like the classic ಠᴗಠ text faces
I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I've avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.
Regular emoji is just easier. But I do have a keyboard shortcut for the ¯\(ツ)/¯ which is my main textface, if annoying to edit his arm back in
Hexbear has so many good ones, I'm quite fond of 
& 
But I also grew up on Battle.net playing Starcraft, so I often resort to kirbys. t(" t) (> ")> <(^o^)> (g ")--o
Oh damn, I haven't seen kirbys in text form in ages.
The only one I use super frequently is :3 which I imagine isn't a surprise to anyone lol
:) all day
Old school smileys :-) because My Keyboard app doesn't have a emoji board.
I only use them in games, but these:
xD
:D
:o
I don't use them on Lemmy, nobody else really does so it seems out of place. If I'm talking to one of my friends, it's a different story.
Ü
Depends on my keyboard at the time