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Don't generally see a reason to

Usually I only use them when I personally know who I'm talking to. Because who knows how a random person will react to an emoji, misunderstanding their meaning, unintentionally or intentionally.

I also sometimes use them to indicate how casual my post is and should not be taken too seriously.

Because this isn't Reddit.. I'm after quality discussions

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Well, personally, I grew up with more primitive emoticons and usually just eschew including smiles entirely. I'll use them with friends but I tend to communicate more formally in public forums.

I'm on desktop :(

Because we're adults.

For some reason emojis just feel out of the place here and reddit. I do use them in private chats and whatnot though

If I had to guess… it’s because most people on Lemmy are over the age of 12?

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Haven't felt the need to use them as often. Emojis and "lol haha" work fine for me.

In-group signalling. One of the many microhabits you need to acquire in order to fit in with the local culture and nothing more. As usual, people make up reasons to justify why their cultural proclivities are objectively right but these are without exception completely post-hoc.

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Voyager has them

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It's a pain with markdown.

Emojis really don't have a use outside of shitpost communities. I very rarely will use them here on Lemmy

i prefer to use them in microblogging platforms like mastodon :3

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I think my Lemmy client does not support emojis, but it supports Lenny faces. Maybe that's why, Lemmy loves Lenny ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

We must change them!

Require them to symbolically emote at least once per post/comment.

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Its just the group we have. I use basic ones sometimes. But I also come from a time before emoji existed.