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

it's just personal preference 🤷‍♀️

Depends.

I rather use these: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

My "I'm being kidnapped, send help" secret code is "I start using emoji"

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 😤

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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. 👍

I probably use the 🙃 emoji most.

Because it does not really have an equivalent in ASCII emoticons.

Never?

My whole username is emoji. And I'm everywhere. 🫩

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 grew up with the emoticons (thats what the text based ones are called? Like :D :P etc?). I never learned to use emojis. I remember when some services and platforms started to bring them on, there was options to turn them off, so I did that. Not sure why, but I did. This was in... 2005? Something like that. Since then I just never bothered to learn to use them. Some services you have to do the :word: thing to get a specific one, some services you need to scroll through millions of them to find the one you are looking for. I can express myself well enough with the text based ones, for me its more work to find a emoji than to just type a couple of characters on the keyboard.

I use them once in a while. Also, I have two in my username.

I noticed you used one in a comment a month ago. Be the change you want to see. 😁

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'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

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

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I'm old enough to think of emojis as hieroglyphics for teens.

Emojis remind me of LLM slop

No rules against them! We're just old :p

Emoji are nice though, thanks for bringing it up.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I do post these emojis sometimes:

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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.

I don't like them.

Yeah I use them all the time. Very helpful when conveying tone.

I like them. I use them infrequently because they're a bit of a hassle to use with the piefed interface, and I haven't bothered to install an emoji picker on my desktop, because I use them so infrequently. But I am a big fan of how they augment written language.

I tend to use them as tone carrying punctuation if I'm making a joke or expressing a particular emotional meaning 🙃 It's rare for me to put an emoji anywhere but at the end of a sentence 🧓 Emotions are hard for me to convey at the best of times, and text-only communication makes it harder 🤷 and emojis can fill in somewhat where tone and cadence would in verbal communication.

It's not a perfect analog and the medium of emojis is still so new that the meanings vary a great deal, to say nothing of how different emoji "fonts" can convey vastly different meanings. For example, the emoji "😕" can express a wide array of emotional states with particular mouth and eye attitudes, the orientation of eyebrows if they're included, etc. A comment that says one thing in one font can express something quite different in another. It's a problem we'll need to sort out, eventually, but I don't think it's anyone's top priority at the moment. Emoticons suffer less from that problem because the glyphs are more standardized: regardless of font, everyone recognizes ":)" as "generic smiling face". Between that and the fact that I can render text emoticons without having to open another dialog or application, the vast majority of my emotes are text-based :)

In neck of the woods the emoji 🙏🙏🙏

is practically a professional requirements.

has to be 3 🙏

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.

t(-_-t) emoji can eat a dick

I like ASCII emojis more. Emojis feel creepy sometimes I like the purple heart

No but they're fine, and also yes sometimes 🙂

𓀥 | 𓁆 𓀕
𓁆 𓀟 | 𓀣 𓁀

It's just that everyone is miserable here and it would be a river of sad and crying faces in every conversation..

It's not that I dislike emoji, but that using them is more effort than a casual comment deserves.

Personally I am happy to be free of this arbitrary rule of Reddit sheep culture that you can't use emojis. People here have the courtesy to use them as appropriate, and I myself use them occasionally. I hope we all just keep it that way.

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.

I don't like them and don't want to see them in a discussion forum.

I have never been super big on them but use them. I do think they are overused in general but no necessarily here.

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

🥵🥵🚇⬇️👀4️⃣🫰8️⃣🍆⬆️🔜

Emoji are less convenient to type and come instead of older Internet conventions that many folks here use and remember pretty well. You know, limitations fueled creativity :-)

i just try to write fast so i dont have time to use emoji's

I'm gen z so I don't use them much

i don't use them here usually.

Lemmy seems to skew older and they don't like emojis because it's stupid/unprofessional/w/e

https://sh.itjust.works/post/6536403

Probably all the lead poison

I think a few old school text emoji's are fine, when used in moderation.

:D

I think relying on cute lil pictures littered throughout text to convey your message is lazy, distracting and childish.

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 😅

👉 Sprinkling them in 👉👈 text to mark ✅ normals words in weird 🕶️ ways adding absolutely nothing ❗❗ to the context? Absolutely not ❌❌

Using them to just give an emotion through a face? Eh, also not 😒

Because they’re for children.

I use them about as often and i the same context as intentional facial expressions. 😅

You see them sometimes, but they're only really ever used when they're needed for something that can't as easily be expressed with text. I've seen many other places where they're overused, and it just makes things harder to read. I don't care for that. It's not a rule to not use them, but it is an implied rule to not overuse them (except in mockery).

Lemmy has a much older user base though. Most of us grew up with emoticons (the text version of emojis) at most. Emojis are used a lot more with people who grew up with smart phones.

Emojis seem like another language to me now. The last time i used emojis for regular communication it was on AIM

Emojis are for immature kids. Especially when they try to compose whole messages without a single word, or throw a dozen emojis at the end of a message.

This is how I feel about emojis in conversation:

⛔

🙂👎💬👍

Instead, I like emoticons in chat because they're fun. ◝(^⌣^)◜

👁️🌊