Never seen anybody using emoji in any community. I did use once or twice, but the way its absent over here, I'm starting to think its part of some implicit rules lemmy has

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[–] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

Check my post history, I guess. 😅

They're helpful in providing the proper context to a text-based convo. IRL, you'd just see my face and body language and hear my tone and understand things better so we have to adjust when texting. This is why people feel like they need the "/s" for sarcasm and whatnot. 👍

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  • [–] -1 points 10 hours ago

    They’re helpful in providing the proper context to a text-based convo

    Nope just annoying.

    IRL, you’d just see my face and body language and hear my tone

    The best part of anonymous forums is not having any tone.

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