Asklemmy

All platforms seem to have them now, except they make theirs paid. Think about it: custom emojis linked to your instance that work cross-instances. And why stop there? Use all emojis from other instances that are federated to yours as well. All free, without limitations, for all users.

Argument 2: they're just fun.

Argument 3: reactions can cut down on useless replies. Many forums have had a "thanks" system in place for years before it was popular and I think it helps cut down on "came here to say this" or "+1" replies. Scratches that itch of not being the first one to offer a solution.

It can become a virtual reward and punishment mechanism that feels like a dopamine sucker. Think of what likes and dislikes, or these reaction emojis did to Facebook posts.

As long as I can disabled them

What about using :) ;) ^^ -.- instead?

Not super necessary, imo. But custom emojis would be nice and they seem to draw more people to a platform.

I love them because it gives you a succinct way to reply without having to type out a response.

One possible implementation would be coalescing "single-glyph-responses" into a "reaction count" on the ui-layer. so instead of seeing several identical comments like: 👍, its visually more like slack, but on the backend its just a regular comment 🤔

This is one of the most civilized, better argumented and well exposed discussions thata I seen in the internet in a long time.

yay from me

I don't think they are necessary per-se, but would be nice for cross-system federation, similar to how polls like in Mastodon aren't really necessary in Lemmy, but would be still nice to have.

If they had no effect I probably wouldn't mind them, idk. Maybe they would clutter the UI?

GitHub also adopted it, and I would say it depends on the platform and target.

For a developer platform I find this unprofessional, but for traditional chat systems it might be useful if you quickly want to go through lots of messages and get a first impression about what the community thinks about topic X.

On Lemmy I would prefer emojis to up and down votes, the reason is that people often do not bother to explain why they up or down voted it.

I would argue, overall, that adding it puts maybe a bit more pressure on the server for no actual benefit.

I overall would like such a feature here on Lemmy but only if there are limits how you can use them, I speculate some people would constantly add and then remove them with might cause some more traffic and pressure on the server, so there should be a limit. Unregistered people should not be allowed to add reaction or use them, only one reaction per post or within x hours.. and such limitations.

🤩 please.

I do love them, but it'd be hard for them to not get real visually noisy. Also they'd need to be moddable (ex: racists using monkey emojis to harass). Also would they be anonymous the way vote counts are? I think they're a really fun feature but need careful thought before UI incorporation. (ooh, maybe they'd make sense to keep pretty small and have in a similar position to where Reddit puts comment gilding?)

I could slightly cut down on small replies while still voicing your thoughts, so IMO that could be worth it.

I think they could be added, as long as they can be visually disabled in clients, for people that don't want the clutter (or maybe neatly hide them away, while still being in reach if needed). Also, custom emojis for sure, even in text content.

Been lurking for a while but made an account to comment on this. My primary concern is that being able to see what other people think of something might mean you don't bother to read it yourself; downvotes have the same effect however their broadness of why a post might deserve one means you need to actually at least skim through something to see if it's unhelpful, false or badly-worded such that someone could misinterpret it. Downvotes help guide you when you aren't able to judge the quality of a comment on your own, emoji reactions could tell you how to feel about a comment before you even read it. If you dislike a post more than a downvote can represent, you need to comment on it to explain why it's bad, forcing you to write out your thoughts - perhaps collect some sources - and most likely proof read them before you comment. An emoji reaction, however, is literally one click away and one scroll later you probably won't even be able to remember it. A more abstract and slightly paranoid worry about it is that this was used by Facebook to track people, and implementing it in Lemmy could open the door to an instance making modifications and using this for the same thing. I know that Lemmy isn't Facebook, but that's precisely why I would rather not have these.

However, I do see a use for these in some communities, namely media-based ones where factual discussion is rare and opinionated (e.g. a community where people post drawings, or links to entertaining YouTube videos), for this reason I think it would perhaps be worth considering as an opt-in for some communities. Because comments typically do not contain media, if you do implement in on an opt-in bases it's probably worthwhile to allow enabling them for posts and comments independently. Some people may also not like them (UI clutter, prejudice, emojiphobia etc) so you should be able to hide them in user settings.

tl;dr this would make you pre-judge comments and posts, and make people react without explaining their thought process in a reply, however could be nice for some communities as an opt-in

yay

meh

yay

Positives: cool way to express your reaction.

Negatives: none. It’s all profit baby.

Sounds good!

I’m in favor of them. It’s kind of like Reddit awards but without having to pay for them.

Maybe the community would have a kind of culture around them were 🦃 is like the best emoji you could give a post.

It wouldn’t really make any sense but it works still be part of the culture of this platform.

i think i'd be cute. tho i think they'd be more suitable for comments rather than posts

yes please, that would be awesome

most of the time I find myself reading posts here that I have some thoughts about, but most of the time it's not worth/enough for a comment, but an emoji could capture that perfectly i think

i also think awards (yes, even paid ones) are a great idea, but that's a separate issue

😻

I think it would be cool if each server could also have custom emoji reactions as well.

But even without that, I feel like it could be like Reddit's badges (or whatever they were called), except that these are free

So, I was exploring a similar thing when I was talking about making a "debate oriented" instance.

Basically the idea is that responses can be "flaired", and you could make an empty comment, with that flair as a reaction.

I think it would be awesome to somehow bring both these features to fruition together.

EDIT: bundling this feature with "flair" would also presumably give communities more control over how these features are used (i.e. flair white/black list)

id be a fan of custom emotes, but the generic ones to find everywhere id be against, because theyre annoying, and cant be used in a serious context

Nay

Wouldn't that take away a bit of the sense of the voting system?

IMO, it'd be kind of redundant with the upvotes and downvotes, no? Like, you could already react positively or negatively with those.