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 ? 😭
In moderation they’re totally fine, but for me personally it’s just faster to type up an emoticon by hand than it is to search through tons of emojis or even use alt codes on Windows.
Idk a well placed emoji can replace a paragraph of text. For instance at work the other day I wrote “the bug seems to have gone away by itself 🙃” which is a lot quicker than “the bug has gone away by itself, this is good on a surface level which is how we can report this to the outside teams but indicates deeper problematic underlying issues that we should continue to be concerned about internally”. The former took 4 keystrokes to type (win+. , u, tab, enter)