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Wow
Emoji are less convenient to type and come instead of older Internet conventions that many folks here use and remember pretty well. You know, limitations fueled creativity :-)
Lemmy seems to skew older and they don't like emojis because it's stupid/unprofessional/w/e
https://sh.itjust.works/post/6536403
Probably all the lead poison
Probably all the lead poison
jfc skew older doesn't mean a preponderance of boomers. you do realize they cut lead out of fuel in the 70s right?
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π Sprinkling them in ππ text to mark β normals words in weird πΆοΈ ways adding absolutely nothing ββ to the context? Absolutely not ββ
Using them to just give an emotion through a face? Eh, also not π
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I'm gen z so I don't use them much
i don't use them here usually.
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I think my first thought is that MAGAβs rage bot farms will use a lot of laughing emojis to taunt people.
I have never been super big on them but use them. I do think they are overused in general but no necessarily here.
You see them sometimes, but they're only really ever used when they're needed for something that can't as easily be expressed with text. I've seen many other places where they're overused, and it just makes things harder to read. I don't care for that. It's not a rule to not use them, but it is an implied rule to not overuse them (except in mockery).
Lemmy has a much older user base though. Most of us grew up with emoticons (the text version of emojis) at most. Emojis are used a lot more with people who grew up with smart phones.
Emojis seem like another language to me now. The last time i used emojis for regular communication it was on AIM
This is how I feel about emojis in conversation:
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Translation
"No. Emoji bad text good"
Instead, I like emoticons in chat because they're fun. β(^β£^)β
I use them about as often and i the same context as intentional facial expressions. π
Because theyβre for children.
You're thinking of anime. Or maybe something else that is also anigay.
That too.
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Generally they are fine, but these ones deeply bother me:
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Why the blue feet?
OP got cold feet and left :p
I guess we will never know.
Big emoji out here downvoting the haters
Emojis are for people who don't know how to read/write the local language. No exceptions. That includes 'native speakers' of the language who use them. Emoji are a sign of illiteracy and people who use them were failed by their education.
Okay thats farπ
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