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 ? 😭

  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    1 year ago

    On Reddit people use emojis a lot

    I find this really funny. I used reddit for about a decade, and I remember redditors absolutely hating emojis. Reddit really changed, in the time I used it, and rarely did it change for the better.

    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      When the Redditpocalypse started and we all came this way, someone made a post about this very thing. I still stand by my statement that day (which I paraphrase):

      I don’t care about emoji’s enough to whine until it’s excessive. Reddit’s insistence that one “😀” is the end of the world was pants-on-head-stupid. Use emoji’s all you fuckin’ want, but if you start putting 3+ in 1 comment I’m going to prep a straight jacket for the person.

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Using one emoji is fine. Using several, or repeating the same one over and over, is a sign of a demented mind.

  • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    A huge amount of emoji use is either a) entirely redundant, and thus just unsightly clutter in the text as it doesn’t fit in with any typical fonts, or b) completely lacking in general, shared meaning, such that it fails at being effective communication.

    And yeah, there are situations in which they work, but typically it typically only does so in specific subcultures that have a common understanding of what various emoji mean. Because I’m sure you don’t consider 💢💢💢 needs correction 💢💢💢 to be a sensible response to your own emoji, but it would be for many people

  • Paolo Amoroso@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    While I don’t downvote posts with emojis I’m most interested in reading tech content, where emojis feel redundant and distracting.

        • Turun@feddit.de
          01·
          1 year ago

          Or is it? Emoji designs can vary wildly between devices. Most notably the gun emoji, which is (was?) Either depicting a water gun, or a real gun, depending on the device.

          (In this case you’re correct though, it is in fact a tortoise on every device listed here. But that emoji is named turtle!)

  • sag@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    My Keyboard don’t have emoji on android and on desktop I use Linux(Too Lazy to install a plugin or extension for my DE) :)

  • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t hate all emojis. I do hate how the vast majority of people use them.

    Back when I used Skype, I freaking loved all of them because the animations made it very clear what someone is trying to express in an easy to understand way (assuming everyone in a given chat had a similar culture).

    Discord is a not-so-close second. I like a decent chunk of the emojis because they are super expressive while being simple. More importantly, custom emojis allow for incredibly unique ways of expressing ideas that only a small group will understand. It’s perfect for inside jokes.

    In general, though? Emojis are so freaking bland and inoffensive. 90% of the time that they’re used, there’s literally 0 reason for them to be used. I don’t need a page full of pregnant people and 16 variations of a family because it’s nowhere near as effective as saying “I’m pregnant” or “I have 3 siblings.” Whoever makes Unicode/these emojis is so hell-bent on inclusivity that they often ignore what makes human inclusivity so important: personality.

    As for the people that use them on the daily? The vast majority seem like a hivemind. On YouTube you will literally find pages of “bro [insert incredibly basic observation] 💀😭” in a single comment section. It’s one thing if it were a reference to something insane or unhinged like a copypasta, but it’s another when it’s a subconscious “can I copy your homework” over and over again. People overuse emojis in the same way that people type out “lmao” with a straight face in response to a meme. They’re used out of laziness so often that they’re becoming filler speech.

    Anyways, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    On Reddit people use emojis a lot

    Really? We must have used different subs. Maybe that’s the answer, you’re the only guy from r/emojipasta or whatever to make the switch.