Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.
It’s “boomer” to use emoji? The fuck?
The stupid Facebook posts with an over sized 🤣 about a mild joke.
Well yeah, overreacting is pretty cringe-inducing, I agree. But not the use of emoji as a concept, IMO. I think conveying emotion or intent or tone using them is good for communication in general. Makes things more personal and clear.
Right - but that is generally how I see them used here already. More emoji would bring things up to boomer level.
😂😂😂🤣 so true
I hate you. Have an upvote.
Emoji were democratized to unhipness, there was a movie about it and all
I don’t use emoji because they’re hip, I use them because they have a function. 🤨🤷♂️
Why a boomer of all things? O.O
“Boomer” has become a general insult for “out of touch”
Correct usage is “everyone older than the speaker”
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Because my millennial ass still uses emoticons :l
Stay true, sister
Same. Old habits die hard X^D, I’m trying to keep things fresh ocationally adding a lil nose.
I actually prefer emoji-lite conversation, meaning emoji is there to enhance the comment/text, and not mere spamming of one. Like for example
“i don’t think i can do that 😅” kinda feels lighthearted with the emoji than without it. But “i don’t think i can do that 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣” is just pure obnoxious, to me at least. I’m not gonna chastise anyone for doing that of course.
Also i do prefer kaomoji more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
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Where do you get your kaomoji?
The voyager app for lemmy has a selection of them for you to quick access.
Woah. I use voyager and never saw this feature. Thanks (°▽°)/
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No specific site, i just search kaomoji and then copy those i like, then on swiftkey i pin those copied kaomoji on the clipboard so it’s saved. Sometime i create one that i can’t find on those site, like this one
¯\_( ´ _ `)_/¯It sort of have different feel as this shrug commonly found
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Haha I see. I do the same but I steal from my friend and pin them to my HeliBoard.
Lmao I use emojis alot of the time
But not every comment is appropriate for emojis, and I feel like overusing it makes me look like a bot or a weirdo, so I don’t do it unless it really fits the tone of the comment
I’ve had someone question whether I’m a bot or not because I use so many emojis 🥲
Well are you? 👀
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I’m quite happy to not see emojis spammed everywhere, I can deal with an emoticon or two - more so if actually useful for setting tone - but much more than that and you’re pushing it.
I tend to associate posts peppered with emojis with either immaturity or those out of their depth when it comes to technology. I’m sure it’s not always true but it does seem to correlate well with either kids or those whose typing method includes just tapping on the emoji whenever their phone keyboard suggests it.
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Emojis are for the girls and the homies. Sorry, I don’t know y’all like that.
I miss vBulletin emoticons.
The unicode ones are lame.
That made me realise of one thing, if I’m on PC I have no idea how to write an emoji. I don’t even know if they’re available, I imagine they are, but not a clue of how.
On Windows, it’s Windows key + .
On Linux, there’s an app called Characters to copy paste emojis from, and some apps use custom key combinations such as Super + ;, or Fn + ;, or something like that
It’s windows + : for me?
That’s how I roll.
There are also browser extensions.
you can also use rofi as a helper
I think this is probably a big part of it actually. If you’re inserting emojis you’re probably on a phone, so you’re probably interacting with the discussion in a quite different way than if you were on a PC. It’s not as comfortable to write longer, better-thought-out comments.
People pick up on these implications and judge people accordingly.
I use the voyager app to browse and it has this little text faces that, imo, are better the emojis. ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
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My take on it is that emojis are used more in casual or interpersonal conversations where they do add tone and emphasis. Most of the topics, at least on my feed, are technical or political and emojis either seem unnecessary/out of place there.
I’ve never been against them globally, just depends on the community theme. They’re inappropriate on serious communities I think still.
String four 🤣🤣🤣🤣 together on a debate board and the urge reach through their screen and strangle them like Homer and Bart becomes intense.
I believe that there’s an inverse relationship between number of consecutive emoji and ability to hold a conversation. Doubly so if it’s four clowns.
That’s like greeting a toddler and asking parents why she’s lice-free.
Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don’t even want to see them here.
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the small emotion symbols
Possibly you mean emoticons? ^_^
