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

  • LittleKerr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

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

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

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

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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 👬 I just got back from the store 🏪 and took a picture 📷 of my cat 🐈.” Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.

  • Leone@kbin.social
    2·
    2 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@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • CORaven@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • hayes_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

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  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 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.

      • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
        0·
        2 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 😁

        • shani66@burggit.moeEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Better? Not at all, (◕‿◕✿) will always be so much better than modern emojis

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    1·
    2 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. 🔱🔥

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

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

  • Ni@kbin.social
    1·
    2 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.

    • PumpedSardines@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

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

      Why do they exist?