Ask Lemmy

Lemmy is full of boring old farts.

I miss vBulletin emoticons.

The unicode ones are lame.

I use the voyager app to browse and it has this little text faces that, imo, are better the emojis. ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆

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I use regular emojis, occasionally.

And I still like "Dongers"! I'll use it if I want!

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That's like greeting a toddler and asking parents why she's lice-free.

I don't really care why, just glade it's the case.

I use them almost exclusively as reactions or to convey tone — and even then, the music notes get used most often, to indicate singing

since lemmy lacks reactions (beyond voting), I rarely have cause

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I actually prefer emoji-lite conversation, meaning emoji is there to enhance the comment/text, and not mere spamming of one. Like for example

"i don't think i can do that 😅" kinda feels lighthearted with the emoji than without it. But "i don't think i can do that 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣" is just pure obnoxious, to me at least. I'm not gonna chastise anyone for doing that of course.

Also i do prefer kaomoji more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Emojis are for the girls and the homies. Sorry, I don’t know y’all like that.

I've softened on them over time (I used to HATE posts with them as it felt weird/immature/lazy to me), but I'm still not big on using them on platforms like mbin. I still use my emoticons and the odd kaomoji, but I tend not to use emoji here. If I see a ton in one post, though, I still just skip whatever it is, typically.

I'm quite happy to not see emojis spammed everywhere, I can deal with an emoticon or two - more so if actually useful for setting tone - but much more than that and you're pushing it.

I tend to associate posts peppered with emojis with either immaturity or those out of their depth when it comes to technology. I'm sure it's not always true but it does seem to correlate well with either kids or those whose typing method includes just tapping on the emoji whenever their phone keyboard suggests it.

Reddit hivemind deep rooted into our brains

I see them as a crutch for people without a large grasp of their spoken language. Emojis are then new "very".

Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don't even want to see them here.

Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.

Because my millennial ass still uses emoticons :l

Lmao I use emojis alot of the time

But not every comment is appropriate for emojis, and I feel like overusing it makes me look like a bot or a weirdo, so I don't do it unless it really fits the tone of the comment

It's kind of funny how I was recently thinking that Lemmy and other Fediverse services seem to be at least tolerant of occasional emoji use. Just don't overdo it and you'll probably be fine. 😁

Compared to, say, Reddit. If you used emoji there, you either got murdered by the spam filter and you will never succeed in your life and you don't know why (there are other ways to trigger it, of course), or it goes through, and the fedoras shall descend upon you.

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That made me realise of one thing, if I'm on PC I have no idea how to write an emoji. I don't even know if they're available, I imagine they are, but not a clue of how.