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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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?
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.
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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Oh snap til
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.
Lemmy is full of boring old farts.
I feel offended and personally attacked, but I agree
Bruh 💀
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I’m a girl and I use emojis and abbreviations on here. Idgaf!🤗😜
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 see them as a crutch for people without a large grasp of their spoken language. Emojis are then new “very”.
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This will be the most infuriating upvote I give today. Congratulations, and good job.
My whole name is emojis. 🤷♂️
Mine too, but only because I saw your username two years ago and cribbed your trick.
What emoji are those letters? I can’t find them on Gboard at least.
They are regional indicators, groups (usually pairs) form the flags, which are in fact multiple characters but behave like a single glyph in a text editor. You can input them and other Unicode “fonts” using the Irregular Expressions keyboard. Their rendering differs wildly but they are usually small caps, sometimes in boxes (dotted or blue) or bold/filled blue themselves.
For people using Lemmy clients that only show usernames, @Kolanaki@pawb.social’s display name is “🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮”. Without spaces nor zero-width non-joiners, the name becomes “🇰🌀🇱🇦🇳🇦🇰🇮” (LAos, NAmibia, KIribati) - you can copy the name into an editor, delete the spaces yourself and see the flags appear. I’d be really surprised if any automatically inserted ZWNJs.
They’re in the unicode table thing. "Character Map"utility in Windows should have them. There’s also online things to just turn regular text into fancy text.
The O, however, is the hurricane/swirl emoji. 🌀
Because no one on lemmy has emotions of course :3 /j
(But ever since I figured out that entering LLAP into the compose key thingy results in the vulcan salute emoji (🖖) I have considered signing off my posts with that lol)
I miss vBulletin emoticons.
The unicode ones are lame.
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.
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.
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.
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.
you can also use rofi as a helper
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.
