Use emojis as if you were a boomer who has just discovered their existence πππππππ
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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 π¬ I just got back from the store πͺ and took a picture π· of my cat π." Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.
Policing how people choose to express themselves is peak Reddit. Letβs not do that.
I think Emojis are fine as long as theyβre not being overused
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Emojis aren't as bad anymore. Just don't spam them
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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.
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.
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.
"old internet" "MSN Messenger"
Feeling positively prehistoric in comparison π¦
Wouldn't that make then emotes?
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 π
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I'm not a fan of emojis. They tend not to contribute anything to the discussion and make your reply appear childish in the same was as adding 'lol' as a prefix to your message.
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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.
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 ππ©, 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.
time to rev up dat emojiverse lemmy instance, emojemmy? π
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Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. ππ«π
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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. π±π₯
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Hmm I can't see the text box I'm typing in... Aah there it is :)
These full screen ones might be overdoing it π
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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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