Never seen anybody using emoji in any community. I did use once or twice, but the way its absent over here, I’m starting to think its part of some implicit rules lemmy has

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    6·
    vor 4 Tagen

    Emojis are a trashy signal for me I hate them. I want my text monochrome. Cool unicode symbols get a pass. “⚠” Yes “⚠️” no.

  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
    81·
    vor 4 Tagen

    I’ve always been of the opinion that one can use their words. I’ve never read anything with emojis crammed in where I felt they’ve added anything of substance. It just seems lazy and a bit trashy.

    Yes. I’m well aware I’m a curmudgeon. I make no apologies.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    vor 6 Tagen

    I see Lemmy as an older crowd that prefers ASCII emotes. Although the do work in some situations.

  • exist@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    vor 4 Tagen

    I use them on discord on sometimes on othef chat platforms. I don’t really like them in longer form text like lemmy or reddit.

    They also, at least for me, carry context that doesn’t make that much sense outside one community. For example I used laughing cat emoji that we use to signify being amused and a guy from a different community thought I was mocking him.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
      4·
      vor 4 Tagen

      God I hate the emojis used as bullet points trend so much, it looks so tacky and is the biggest immediate sign of a vibecoded slop project

      This project is

      ⚡Lighting fast

      🔋Power efficient

      🚀 Ultra customisable

      🔔 Keeps you always up to date

      ⭐ Remember to leave a star on GitHub

      Stop writing your readme like you’re a soulless corporation’s marketing department PLEASE

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        2·
        vor 4 Tagen

        I really don’t understand where it even came from. It’s not like people were consistently using them as bullet points in the training data…at least not to the extent that LLMs are making it a trope.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    191·
    vor 6 Tagen

    Check my post history, I guess. 😅

    They’re helpful in providing the proper context to a text-based convo. IRL, you’d just see my face and body language and hear my tone and understand things better so we have to adjust when texting. This is why people feel like they need the “/s” for sarcasm and whatnot. 👍

    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
      59·
      vor 6 Tagen

      They’re helpful in providing the proper context to a text-based convo

      Nope just annoying.

      IRL, you’d just see my face and body language and hear my tone

      The best part of anonymous forums is not having any tone.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
        1·
        vor 4 Tagen

        Oh my god man get a grip, everyone has a tone over writing, like how yours right now is rude.

        Using emojis just communicates more informality plus whatever the emoji communicates. It’s not annoying to most people, and it shouldn’t be to you

        • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
          1·
          vor 4 Tagen

          Oh my god man get a grip, everyone has a tone over writing.

          I disagree. There is no tone on the internet, that is what makes forums work. Emojis suck. Period.

          And I know this because you think my words have a tone. They do not. They are just a statement.

          Edit: I want to add, part of my aversion is that people often just slap whatever the keyboard recommends to them into a sentence, or AI helped write it. They clutter communication, not help it at this point.

          A long time ago, like in the 80’s people actually discussed what would indicate being friendly and they went with :-). But now its dogs, cats, silly clowns, hats, that stupid celebration and starry eyed smiley and so on. Just plain annoying to have to read.

  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    vor 5 Tagen

    I’ve been conditioned over time to not use them on internet forums but I use them a lot when texting. So it feels kind of weird to see one around on a Lemmy comment but I don’t hate them

    • courval@lemmy.world
      3·
      vor 4 Tagen

      For me it’s part of non-verbal communication and empathy when used to add context to what you’re trying to communicate. But I don’t use it online either… I think it’s because some forums don’t enable them or it’s not practical if you’re on a desktop per example. Maybe that’s why the Internet is so miserable 😅

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    vor 4 Tagen

    I think my first thought is that MAGA’s rage bot farms will use a lot of laughing emojis to taunt people.