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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still call them emoticons on occasion

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still have my emoticon copy/paste text file from the ancient times.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I still test out messaging apps by using this fella

(_/)

(0.0)

(> <)

I'd be interested to see which ones you have on that file

Edit: Lemmy apparently doesn't like the rabbit's formatting

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It should format properly if you use a code block. This is the bunny I always used to use

  (\ /)
 (^.^ )
(")(")o
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

either escape the backslash or embed the whole thing in a code block

(\_/)
(0.0)
(> &lt;)

and Markdown insists on breaking anything with a less-than character (considering the preview shows correctly but then you hit โ€œSaveโ€) โ€ฆ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can escape formatting by adding a backslash in front.

this is a quote

> this is an escaped quote

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The rabbit's left ear looks like it should be a backslash (\_/)

Backslash is an escape character used in formatting, so if you want to actually display a backslash you need to use two (\\_/)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh the file itself turned out to be garbage because it was a text file. So it was terrible at preserving spacing and all that. I can upload it when I get home if you want nostalgia more than usability lol I probably used it for a month out of stubbornness before just finding a website that hosts emoticons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nostalgia. I had a set of kaomoji stored in a text file.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I have made myself a liar. I must have deleted it a while back.

https://emotes.io/ has what you are looking for though.