I shamelessly jack hexbear emojis 
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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I've never been against them globally, just depends on the community theme. They're inappropriate on serious communities I think still.
String four ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ together on a debate board and the urge reach through their screen and strangle them like Homer and Bart becomes intense.
I believe that there's an inverse relationship between number of consecutive emoji and ability to hold a conversation. Doubly so if it's four clowns.
Lemmy is full of boring old farts.
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Iโm a girl and I use emojis and abbreviations on here. Idgaf!๐ค๐
I feel offended and personally attacked, but I agree
I miss vBulletin emoticons. 
The unicode ones are lame.
I use the voyager app to browse and it has this little text faces that, imo, are better the emojis. ๏ฝ(ใคห0ห)ใค๏ฝกโ
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I actually prefer emoji-lite conversation, meaning emoji is there to enhance the comment/text, and not mere spamming of one. Like for example
"i don't think i can do that ๐ " kinda feels lighthearted with the emoji than without it. But "i don't think i can do that ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ" is just pure obnoxious, to me at least. I'm not gonna chastise anyone for doing that of course.
Also i do prefer kaomoji more แ( แ )แ
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That's like greeting a toddler and asking parents why she's lice-free.
Emojis are for the girls and the homies. Sorry, I donโt know yโall like that.
I don't really care why, just glade it's the case.
I'm quite happy to not see emojis spammed everywhere, I can deal with an emoticon or two - more so if actually useful for setting tone - but much more than that and you're pushing it.
I tend to associate posts peppered with emojis with either immaturity or those out of their depth when it comes to technology. I'm sure it's not always true but it does seem to correlate well with either kids or those whose typing method includes just tapping on the emoji whenever their phone keyboard suggests it.
Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.
It's "boomer" to use emoji? The fuck?
The stupid Facebook posts with an over sized ๐คฃ about a mild joke.
Well yeah, overreacting is pretty cringe-inducing, I agree. But not the use of emoji as a concept, IMO. I think conveying emotion or intent or tone using them is good for communication in general. Makes things more personal and clear.
Right - but that is generally how I see them used here already. More emoji would bring things up to boomer level.
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I hate you. Have an upvote.
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Because my millennial ass still uses emoticons :l
Stay true, sister
Same. Old habits die hard X^D, I'm trying to keep things fresh ocationally adding a lil nose.
I see them as a crutch for people without a large grasp of their spoken language. Emojis are then new "very".
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This will be the most infuriating upvote I give today. Congratulations, and good job.
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Lmao I use emojis alot of the time
But not every comment is appropriate for emojis, and I feel like overusing it makes me look like a bot or a weirdo, so I don't do it unless it really fits the tone of the comment
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I use regular emojis, occasionally.
And I still like "Dongers"! I'll use it if I want!
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It's kind of funny how I was recently thinking that Lemmy and other Fediverse services seem to be at least tolerant of occasional emoji use. Just don't overdo it and you'll probably be fine. ๐
Compared to, say, Reddit. If you used emoji there, you either got murdered by the spam filter and you will never succeed in your life and you don't know why (there are other ways to trigger it, of course), or it goes through, and the fedoras shall descend upon you.
I was going to say, I think it's carry-over from Reddit, which is vehemently anti-emoji.
I think they are fine, even helpful, punctuating a larger comment, but I think the fear is tolerance leads to posts that just consist of ๐ or ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ which are ambiguous (is that agreement or mockery?) and just trash quality content that contributes nothing to the discourse.
Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don't even want to see them here.
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