I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding

I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes…

On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis

So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? 😭

  • ΛdΛm_𝒷@infosec.pubOPEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    This “always taking everyting to the extreme” really annoys me about our current society. There is no moderation anymore; it feels like you must either be extremely happy or extremely sad/angry/whatever

    And yet you still figured that I’m not actually crying rivers for emojis, I just miss them ( just a little ),

    The idea of a emoji is to sound more human, that’s why Ai chat bots use them at the end of their answers, to sound more human and more friendly

    emoticons such as :-) and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ doesn’t have the same effect, still they’re better than nothing…

    But I don’t like to use them, because I prefer to use punctuation marks in paragraphs where they belong, not to draw faces, it’s not what they were meant to do

    • 4z01235@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      The idea of a emoji is to sound more human, that’s why Ai chat bots use them at the end of their answers, to sound more human and more friendly

      This is how you feel about it, but you’re posting in a place full of humans who don’t communicate that way. It’s fine that you like to, but you won’t have much luck appealing to a community by calling their norms less-human and unfriendly.