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I don't care either way, but I always thought it was funny how reddit was so vehemently anti-emoji

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[โ€“] LittleKerr@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use emojis as if you were a boomer who has just discovered their existence ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] DreamySweet@exploding-heads.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ manโ—โ—That's๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†such a ๐Ÿ˜Žcool๐Ÿ˜Ž way to typeโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธโŒจ๏ธ!!โ—!

[โ€“] kommanditbolag@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I love my ๐Ÿ†• โŒจ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ

[โ€“] Garatron@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Emojis are fine as long as theyโ€™re not being overused

[โ€“] PumpedSardines@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What ๐Ÿ’โ€โ™€๏ธ do ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ you ๐Ÿซต mean ๐Ÿ’€ emojis ๐Ÿ˜ƒ are ๐Ÿ˜Œ the ๐Ÿ™€ best โค๏ธ

[โ€“] Leone@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] lunar_parking@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed, move beyond Reddit. I personally want to see this (and honestly the Fediverse as a whole) shepherd the internet and social media into a new era more akin to the old internet. Reddit as a platform was destined to fail, imo.

[โ€“] admin@thegarden.land 19 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] TeaHands@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[โ€“] Lollerskater@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

"old internet" "MSN Messenger"

Feeling positively prehistoric in comparison ๐Ÿฆ•

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[โ€“] Hol@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but only the most obscure ones: ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿฅฝ๐Ÿฆ”

[โ€“] PumpedSardines@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the random boxes with characters in them: ๐Ÿšพ๐Ÿˆณ๐Ÿ›…๐Ÿ›‚๐Ÿšผโšง๏ธ๐Ÿ›—๐Ÿ’นโœณ๏ธ๐Ÿˆฏ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฃ๐Ÿšฎ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿˆโคต๏ธ๐Ÿ†“๐Ÿ†–๐Ÿˆน๐Ÿ“ดโš›๏ธ๐Ÿˆš๏ธ๐Ÿˆฒ๐Ÿ†˜๐Ÿ†‘โ™‹๏ธโ˜ธ๏ธโœก๏ธ๐Ÿ•‰๏ธ๐Ÿ†š

Why do they exist?

For signage and i think those kinds of emojis see more use in places like Japan and China hence a lot of them also including their characters too.

[โ€“] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐Ÿ”ฅ

[โ€“] kill@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Dirk_Darkly@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿซ€๐Ÿ™

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[โ€“] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Policing how people choose to express themselves is peak Reddit. Letโ€™s not do that.

[โ€“] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never really understood the hard-on redditors got when it came to hating emojis, some are really cute, like this llama! ๐Ÿฆ™๐Ÿฆ™๐Ÿฆ™

[โ€“] kommanditbolag@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love the way this guy ๐Ÿชฐ smiles.

[โ€“] kill@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[โ€“] lodion@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Lemmy posts support unicode... so yes? ๐Ÿค˜

[โ€“] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] zekiz@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] Ni@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] Alcarine@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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: ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜› ???

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

[โ€“] qtie314@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Nah that's definitely feelings I want to express

[โ€“] azurestrike@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] snowfall@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

If used properly and in moderation, why not?

[โ€“] LostCause@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I donโ€˜t really like using emojis ๐Ÿ˜ฃ but I wonโ€˜t complain if other people use them I guess ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] Briskfall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 ๐Ÿ˜‚)

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 ๐Ÿค”.

[โ€“] kill@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

can't wait till lemmy is 5 years old and ppl are saying shit like "daemmy my fasoe now liam tareech" and you think that's arabic but it's just lemmyspeak

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 ๐Ÿ‘ฌ I just got back from the store ๐Ÿช and took a picture ๐Ÿ“ท of my cat ๐Ÿˆ." Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.

[โ€“] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Blah, emojis ๐Ÿ’€

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? ๐Ÿ‘€ Not really, I think.

But this? ๐Ÿคช It breaks the flow of text and pulls attention to itself.

Heck, even the more skin-accurate variants aren't all that annoying: ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿฝ it's just the yellow ones. Why can't we have the basic smilies in more muted colors?

[โ€“] Ferk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh! and OpenMoji has a variant that is just black & white line art. It merges well with text.

It would be relatively easy to configure their font in whatever instance decides it prefers that. Or have a userscript or something to inject the CSS adding it.

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[โ€“] Mika7150@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] simo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

[โ€“] lunar_parking@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] sab@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this might actually be more general than just a Reddit thing. When emojis were relatively new you had a couple of cohorts of kids and some middle aged people who went apeshit (or ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’ฉ, as these people could genuinely write) about it, often combining series of them with no ironical distance. This was considered annoying by the rest of society at the time, but when you're past 20 you can't really comment on what the kids are up to.

Then the kids themselves started taking an anti-emoji stance, perhaps after their teachers started using them. Minimalist use is still fine, but excessive use has always been kind of annoying, and is just not a good idea if you want to get your point across in a forum with a broad audience.

[โ€“] kill@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

time to rev up dat emojiverse lemmy instance, emojemmy? ๐Ÿญ

[โ€“] eels@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You had lemmoji right there and went for emojemmy? ๐Ÿค“

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[โ€“] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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!

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