Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
It’s kind of funny how I was recently thinking that Lemmy and other Fediverse services seem to be at least tolerant of occasional emoji use. Just don’t overdo it and you’ll probably be fine. 😁
Compared to, say, Reddit. If you used emoji there, you either got murdered by the spam filter and you will never succeed in your life and you don’t know why (there are other ways to trigger it, of course), or it goes through, and the fedoras shall descend upon you.
I was going to say, I think it’s carry-over from Reddit, which is vehemently anti-emoji.
I think they are fine, even helpful, punctuating a larger comment, but I think the fear is tolerance leads to posts that just consist of
👍or🤣🤣🤣which are ambiguous (is that agreement or mockery?) and just trash quality content that contributes nothing to the discourse.