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
i just try to write fast so i dont have time to use emoji’s
it’s just personal preference 🤷♀️
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. 👍
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.
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
no rules that I’m aware of.
my personal input, it’s a good ‘language’. it’s all interpretation and if you want to be taken serious in speech, you don’t talk in pictures.
it would be akin to only taking in abbreviations. it only makes me ask you what you’re talking about , or being completely ignored/assumed ai slop
I think they’re annoying to look at and I have never felt the need to use them to communicate. I think that people who use a lot of emojis are usually stupid.
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I tend to only use emoji when texting people I know, not when talking to strangers. Also, I’m on desktop here and so its more effort to use them than its worth IMO 😤
If you’re on windows the emoji keyboard is windows key + .
Ctrl + . works for me on Linux Mint – that’s how I enter most of the ones I use.
On Arch using Firefox 🔥️🦊️ that works for me too 🎊️
Look out Fediverse 🤖️, I am now Emoji enabled 😱️🥳️
Congratulations 👏, you 👉 are ready ✅ for LinkedIn 🎉💼
Because they’re For children.
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You’re thinking of anime. Or maybe something else that is also anigay.
I like that it’s not much in use here.
I have to think more carefully about what words I type and how to convey my emotions in text. It’s good to practice written communication, and it’s good to be comfortable with it for when you want to be taken more seriously.
And I kinda assume those who splatter their text with emojis are bots or LLMs programmed to sound more human, or people trying to imply or invoke emotions to sell me on some nonsense or other, so I don’t read those comments or posts anyway.
It’s fun that Lemmy has its own culture which comes as a little shock but is easy to adapt to once you figure it out, isn’t it?
I have never been super big on them but use them. I do think they are overused in general but no necessarily here.
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Yeah I use them all the time. Very helpful when conveying tone.
My “I’m being kidnapped, send help” secret code is “I start using emoji”
I’m about tired of emojis. For a while to me, emojis are weaponized by people who post snarky responses and just want to use an emoji as just an indirect snub to add to it. The fun of using them has been ruined from that and people that feel the need to spam fucking a chain of them.
Are you ok? ❤️ Sending thoughts and prayers 🙏❤️🙏
/s and I feel somehow dirty now
I’m old enough to think of emojis as hieroglyphics for teens.
Emojis have their place. I use a few. I think people who viscerally hate them (like some folks ITT) are overreacting and need to mellow the fuck out. They’re no different than emoticons from yesteryear 😅
