I find myself using them on pretty much every platform that has them: matrix, masto, discord, etc.

These would be completely separate from votes, and have no affect on sorting.

What do you think the positives and negatives would be of having them?

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    13•2 years ago

    It can become a virtual reward and punishment mechanism that feels like a dopamine sucker. Think of what likes and dislikes, or these reaction emojis did to Facebook posts.

  • @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    11•2 years ago

    All platforms seem to have them now, except they make theirs paid. Think about it: custom emojis linked to your instance that work cross-instances. And why stop there? Use all emojis from other instances that are federated to yours as well. All free, without limitations, for all users.

    Argument 2: they’re just fun.

    Argument 3: reactions can cut down on useless replies. Many forums have had a “thanks” system in place for years before it was popular and I think it helps cut down on “came here to say this” or “+1” replies. Scratches that itch of not being the first one to offer a solution.

    • @Peter1986c@lemmy.ml
      0•2 years ago

      It would not be well-understood by Gen Z. :P

      Millenials are the last gen (in the West) to have grown up with the old-school style of typing emoticons, I think. But that may be just my impression.

  • @daojones@lemmy.ml
    7•2 years ago

    I love them because it gives you a succinct way to reply without having to type out a response.

  • Maya
    6•2 years ago

    I do love them, but it’d be hard for them to not get real visually noisy. Also they’d need to be moddable (ex: racists using monkey emojis to harass). Also would they be anonymous the way vote counts are? I think they’re a really fun feature but need careful thought before UI incorporation. (ooh, maybe they’d make sense to keep pretty small and have in a similar position to where Reddit puts comment gilding?)

    • DessalinesOP
      3•2 years ago

      For the UI, I was thinking they’d look similar to discord reactions, small, grouped, and at the bottom:

      I was originally thinking anonymous, but I never thought of ppl using them for nefarious purposes…

  • poVoq
    6•2 years ago

    I don’t think they are necessary per-se, but would be nice for cross-system federation, similar to how polls like in Mastodon aren’t really necessary in Lemmy, but would be nice to have.

  • Sr Estegosaurio
    6•2 years ago

    This is one of the most civilized, better argumented and well exposed discussions thata I seen in the internet in a long time.

  • @Thann@lemmy.ml
    6•2 years ago

    One possible implementation would be coalescing “single-glyph-responses” into a “reaction count” on the ui-layer. so instead of seeing several identical comments like: 👍, its visually more like slack, but on the backend its just a regular comment 🤔

  • TmpodM
    5•2 years ago

    I think they could be added, as long as they can be visually disabled in clients, for people that don’t want the clutter (or maybe neatly hide them away, while still being in reach if needed). Also, custom emojis for sure, even in text content.