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 ? 😭

  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz
    1421·
    1 year ago

    On Reddit people use emojis a lot

    I find this really funny. I used reddit for about a decade, and I remember redditors absolutely hating emojis. Reddit really changed, in the time I used it, and rarely did it change for the better.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      1 year ago

      I also remember a lot of hate for emojis on Reddit. Or maybe it’s just the communities I frequented. But, most of the hate I saw linked them to Twitter and a dumbing down of discourse. I have the same sort of reaction to them, but I also recognize that they are becoming normalized in discourse and I really shouldn’t have such a negative reaction. Some day, we’ll probably have some make their way into formalized English and you would be considered weird, archaic and backwards for not using them. Consider how we now see the use of the words “thee” and “thou”. Those used to be normal, but people got lazy and just started using “you” everywhere, despite it being the “wrong” usage. Now, it’s just normal.

      • Gabu@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        “You” isn’t lazy usage of “thou”, they’re both modern representations of “þou”, the old spelling which changed to accommodate printing technology. “You” uses one fewer letter, so it became the preferred spelling.

      • ██████████@lemmy.world
        1211·
        1 year ago

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    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
      163·
      1 year ago

      When the Redditpocalypse started and we all came this way, someone made a post about this very thing. I still stand by my statement that day (which I paraphrase):

      I don’t care about emoji’s enough to whine until it’s excessive. Reddit’s insistence that one “😀” is the end of the world was pants-on-head-stupid. Use emoji’s all you fuckin’ want, but if you start putting 3+ in 1 comment I’m going to prep a straight jacket for the person.