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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.
Agreeβ¦ or the comments that are solely emoji. Unless itβs meme Iβd rather see actual thoughts in text format.
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Iβve violated my own rule like 5 times in the past two days. π Β―_(γ)_/Β―
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.
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Look I grew up with MSN, I was waiting for years for emojis to come back into use. Let me have this π
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
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 theyβd 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
I'd like to see more lenny faces (Λ΅ Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°Λ΅)
lenny faces for lemmy!
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
There was a bit of discussion about this on the Lemmy side a few weeks back and the consensus seems to be: you do you.
How refreshing to know. I would have guessed lemmy to be more in keeping with standard reddit, since they got the bigger influx and definitely partake more in the shitpost behavior. It seems the people who made being a dickhead their whole persona really have stayed behind in majority.
Personally, I don't care hard enough unless it's several in a row, which I do forsee happening, since it was used solely to annoy in the past. So...not really looking forward to those, but as long as it's used normally.
I'm enjoying an emoticon renaissance :)
Just use them with tact and I don't think anyone really cares - on reddit or on here
They aid in communication, especially to convey tone, or sarcasm, or simply the user's feelings. What's not to β€οΈ?
Do what you want with them. It doesn't really bother me either way.
I'm OK with them. There's definitely such a thing as overusing them, but I think they can be useful for conveying tone.
I actually think they're a lot less annoying than some of the other attempted expressive shortcuts common to Reddit.
π > /s
π > jk
π€£ > lol
π€¦ββοΈ > *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! π
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I personally dislike them, but do what makes you feel good
Us vs. them is as bad as ever. Just use emoji if you want, but donβt overuse them? Live and let live I say.
Emojis are fine as a general thing; it's when the tween memelords can't post one without at least four more in a row that I get disgusted.
There should be a decent ratio of actual content to emojis.
I made a friend recently who likes to use the plant emoji. It's really sweet and refreshing, and it feels calming somehow. She's very nice to me π±
Eh, I donβt really like them but thatβs mainly just the art style. I didnβt mind when forums would have smiley faces and stuff because people usually didnβt overdo them.
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honestly the only one i use is π³
π¬ Is a fun one. Or if someoneβs doing something sketchy / kinda nonsensical but I donβt plan on intervening, Iβll go with π π΅ or π
Only if they're OG emoticons. Get those emojis off my lawn. /oldman
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Idc for their usage , I use them myself sometime β
Also OOTL wy reddit hates them so much
I'll say this though : if you ever catch me use π , take me out back and shoot me like Old Yeller βΌοΈ
I think reddit things that emojis are cringe because "normies" use them π
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I donβt really use emojis because hunting specific ones down can feel like a chore and I wouldnβt even know which ones were appropriate. That said, I could care less if others use them.
I find them annoying when overused (using multiple in one comment, especially the trend of putting one between every single word) and when the comment is only emoji, but they're fine in moderation.
Express yourself however you want
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