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

Because my millennial ass still uses emoticons :l

Lemmy is full of boring old farts.

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

Emojis are for the girls and the homies. Sorry, I don’t know y’all like that.

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 miss vBulletin emoticons.

The unicode ones are lame.

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've never been against them globally, just depends on the community theme. They're inappropriate on serious communities I think still.

String four 🤣🤣🤣🤣 together on a debate board and the urge reach through their screen and strangle them like Homer and Bart becomes intense.

I don't really care why, just glade it's the case.

My whole name is emojis. 🤷‍♂️

Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.

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 see them as a crutch for people without a large grasp of their spoken language. Emojis are then new "very".

＼⁠(⁠°⁠o⁠°⁠)⁠／

Smileys are where it's at. :)

the small emotion symbols

Possibly you mean emoticons? ^⁠_⁠^

That's like greeting a toddler and asking parents why she's lice-free.

I use the voyager app to browse and it has this little text faces that, imo, are better the emojis. ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆

(⌐■_■)

I've softened on them over time (I used to HATE posts with them as it felt weird/immature/lazy to me), but I'm still not big on using them on platforms like mbin. I still use my emoticons and the odd kaomoji, but I tend not to use emoji here. If I see a ton in one post, though, I still just skip whatever it is, typically.

I mostly use emojis as either a quick reaction or as a way of acknowledging that I read something someone I know sent me. They make a lot less sense in places like Reddit or Lemmy, where interaction is more impersonal and commenting doesn't feel worth it unless you have something substantial to say.

Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don't even want to see them here.

I use them almost exclusively as reactions or to convey tone — and even then, the music notes get used most often, to indicate singing

since lemmy lacks reactions (beyond voting), I rarely have cause

Reddit hivemind deep rooted into our brains

👍

🤖🚫

🐌🐥