Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.

I actually prefer emoji-lite conversation, meaning emoji is there to enhance the comment/text, and not mere spamming of one. Like for example

"i don't think i can do that 😅" kinda feels lighthearted with the emoji than without it. But "i don't think i can do that 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣" is just pure obnoxious, to me at least. I'm not gonna chastise anyone for doing that of course.

Also i do prefer kaomoji more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Because my millennial ass still uses emoticons :l

Lemmy is full of boring old farts.

Lmao I use emojis alot of the time

But not every comment is appropriate for emojis, and I feel like overusing it makes me look like a bot or a weirdo, so I don't do it unless it really fits the tone of the comment

I'm quite happy to not see emojis spammed everywhere, I can deal with an emoticon or two - more so if actually useful for setting tone - but much more than that and you're pushing it.

I tend to associate posts peppered with emojis with either immaturity or those out of their depth when it comes to technology. I'm sure it's not always true but it does seem to correlate well with either kids or those whose typing method includes just tapping on the emoji whenever their phone keyboard suggests it.

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Emojis are for the girls and the homies. Sorry, I don’t know y’all like that.

I see them as a crutch for people without a large grasp of their spoken language. Emojis are then new "very".

Because no one on lemmy has emotions of course :3 /j

(But ever since I figured out that entering LLAP into the compose key thingy results in the vulcan salute emoji (🖖) I have considered signing off my posts with that lol)

My whole name is emojis. 🤷‍♂️

That made me realise of one thing, if I'm on PC I have no idea how to write an emoji. I don't even know if they're available, I imagine they are, but not a clue of how.

It's kind of funny how I was recently thinking that Lemmy and other Fediverse services seem to be at least tolerant of occasional emoji use. Just don't overdo it and you'll probably be fine. 😁

Compared to, say, Reddit. If you used emoji there, you either got murdered by the spam filter and you will never succeed in your life and you don't know why (there are other ways to trigger it, of course), or it goes through, and the fedoras shall descend upon you.

I miss vBulletin emoticons.

The unicode ones are lame.

My take on it is that emojis are used more in casual or interpersonal conversations where they do add tone and emphasis. Most of the topics, at least on my feed, are technical or political and emojis either seem unnecessary/out of place there.

I use the voyager app to browse and it has this little text faces that, imo, are better the emojis. ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆

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Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don't even want to see them here.

That's like greeting a toddler and asking parents why she's lice-free.

I don't really care why, just glade it's the case.

I've never been against them globally, just depends on the community theme. They're inappropriate on serious communities I think still.

String four 🤣🤣🤣🤣 together on a debate board and the urge reach through their screen and strangle them like Homer and Bart becomes intense.

the small emotion symbols

Possibly you mean emoticons? ^⁠_⁠^

I love Kaomoji and use them in most of my comments. So far I felt like people are very neutral here when it comes to this topic but iirc other platforms weren't very fond of emojis so I guess a lot of users are just not used to it.

When I use emojis I try to use as little as possible because they feel kind of overused to me and a text with several emojis just doesn't read well for me.

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Smileys are where it's at. :)