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

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

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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.

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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.

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    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.

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    Yes, but only the most obscure ones: 🧵🥽🦔

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

      Why do they exist?

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        1 year 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.

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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. 🔱🔥

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    Policing how people choose to express themselves is peak Reddit. Let’s not do that.

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

  • TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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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    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.

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    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 😂)

    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 🤔.

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      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