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

  • LittleKerr
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    342 years ago

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

    • DreamySweet
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      182 years ago

      Oh😁😁 man❗❗That’s👆👆👆👆👆👆such a 😎cool😎 way to type⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️!!❗!

  • Garatron
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    262 years ago

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

  • Leone
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    182 years ago

    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.

    • lunar_parking
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      Agreed, we need to 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 years ago

    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.

    • Lollerskater
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      152 years ago

      “old internet” “MSN Messenger”

      Feeling positively prehistoric in comparison 🦕

      • @jcgA
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        12 years ago

        Those are emoticons yes, but they were just saying that emoticons were endemic to old internet, so now that we have something better we may as well use it 😁

    • PumpedSardines
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      42 years ago

      All the random boxes with characters in them: 🚾🈳🛅🛂🚼⚧️🛗💹✳️🈯️🔣🚮📶🈁⤵️🆓🆖🈹📴⚛️🈚️🈲🆘🆑♋️☸️✡️🕉️🆚

      Why do they exist?

      • MrScottyTay
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        72 years ago

        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.

  • HeartyBeast
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    132 years ago

    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. 🔱🔥

  • Dirk Darkly
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    102 years ago

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

  • AnonymousLlama
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    92 years ago

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

  • zekiz
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    72 years ago

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

  • Ni
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    62 years 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    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.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      12 years ago

      It seldom occurs to me to use them if they’re not provided by the UI of the platform.

  • LostCause
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    52 years ago

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