The historical reason is that Hexbear implemented emojis before Lemmy did. Lemmy ended up supporting emojis only when Hexbear merged with Lemmy recently. A bunch of our own emojis are cribbed from Hexbear.

[–] Nakoichi@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hexbear reinventing pictographic language.

[–] Erika4sis@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Hexbear reinventing pictographic language.

When I proposed adding :kijetesantakalu: as an emoji, that was supposed to be the first step to adding all of sitelen pona as emojis, thereby fulfilling this prophecy

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

if hexbear reinvents rebus, I'm calling it, alphabets were a mistake.

[–] sorosfootsoldier@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 months ago

Hexbearians need to bring freedom and democracy (emojis) to the poor oppressed people of lemmygrad.

[–] anarchoilluminati@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How can I tell if someone likes or dislikes me without a Stalin heart or PPB emoji?

I'm lost.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago

20 y/o's vs 30 y/o's

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Well, uh

Ye just live with that

[–] Seryph@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Now you understand why I use the same like 3 all the time 😔

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Well Jerboa doesn't even give me the option to see them when typing a comment.