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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't generally see a reason to

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because this isn't Reddit.. I'm after quality discussions

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[–] Pratai 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I had to guess… it’s because most people on Lemmy are over the age of 12?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Well, personally, I grew up with more primitive emoticons and usually just eschew including smiles entirely. I'll use them with friends but I tend to communicate more formally in public forums.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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Haven't felt the need to use them as often. Emojis and "lol haha" work fine for me.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voyager has them

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

(ΰΈ‡ ΰΈ·β–Ώ ΰΈ·)ΰΈ§ α••(ᐛ)α•—

Oh my god, I'd never tried tapping this button before.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

For some reason emojis just feel out of the place here and reddit. I do use them in private chats and whatnot though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We must change them!

Require them to symbolically emote at least once per post/comment.

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>:-}

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think my Lemmy client does not support emojis, but it supports Lenny faces. Maybe that's why, Lemmy loves Lenny Κ• Ν‘Β° Κ–Μ― Ν‘Β°Κ”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a pain with markdown.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sync for Lemmy has a menu of them to insert into your comments.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Emojis really don't have a use outside of shitpost communities. I very rarely will use them here on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In-group signalling. One of the many microhabits you need to acquire in order to fit in with the local culture and nothing more. As usual, people make up reasons to justify why their cultural proclivities are objectively right but these are without exception completely post-hoc.

[–] indigomirage 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

use your words!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Its just the group we have. I use basic ones sometimes. But I also come from a time before emoji existed.

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