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

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

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.

I think Emojis are fine as long as they’re not being overused

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.

Emojis aren't as bad anymore. Just don't spam them

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.

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. 🔱🔥

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

Lemmy posts support unicode... so yes? 🤘

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.

WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 2⃣ TRIPLE 3⃣ WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑‍🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🫵 YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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.

Let your heart be your guide. Only way to know for sure. 🙏🫀🙏

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.

Blah, emojis 💀

Btw so what I realized is that the crappy thing about emojis is that they stand out, possibly due to the bright colors.

I mean, is this annoying? 👀 Not really, I think.

But this? 🤪 It breaks the flow of text and pulls attention to itself.

Heck, even the more skin-accurate variants aren't all that annoying: 👋🏽 it's just the yellow ones. Why can't we have the basic smilies in more muted colors?

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

I have no idea how to type emojis on my windows laptop lol. so whenever I use them I gotta copy+paste. On discord they have shortcodes for them :emojiname: and on twitter there's an emoji picker. no idea how to do it elsewhere...