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I don't like to have to press a button, then search for an emoji. Emoticons are faster to write, I mostly use the :), :/, etc.
I changed that in Mastodon, for example. Someone told me that screen readers have trouble reading emoticons, so I mostly use stickers or emojis there.
I'm on desktop :(
On Windows: Win + .
Would you look at that, TIL!
I'll forget tomorrow though.
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Well, personally, I grew up with more primitive emoticons and usually just eschew including smiles entirely. I'll use them with friends but I tend to communicate more formally in public forums.
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Haven't felt the need to use them as often. Emojis and "lol haha" work fine for me.
If I had to guessβ¦ itβs because most people on Lemmy are over the age of 12?
In-group signalling. One of the many microhabits you need to acquire in order to fit in with the local culture and nothing more. As usual, people make up reasons to justify why their cultural proclivities are objectively right but these are without exception completely post-hoc.
Voyager has them
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Oh my god, I'd never tried tapping this button before.
For some reason emojis just feel out of the place here and reddit. I do use them in private chats and whatnot though
It's a pain with markdown.
Sync for Lemmy has a menu of them to insert into your comments.
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Emojis really don't have a use outside of shitpost communities. I very rarely will use them here on Lemmy
I think my Lemmy client does not support emojis, but it supports Lenny faces. Maybe that's why, Lemmy loves Lenny Κ Ν‘Β° ΚΜ― Ν‘Β°Κ
We must change them!
Require them to symbolically emote at least once per post/comment.
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Its just the group we have. I use basic ones sometimes. But I also come from a time before emoji existed.
I feel like emoticons are in some ways cheating at using words and thus it shows a lack of effort put into your communication. I use them mostly in quicker format messaging like Discord. I don't blame anyone for using a π€· or such but I'd like to try to be more eloquent.
While I get what you're saying and I think sometimes emojis can absolutely be overused or used in place of textual clarification, I feel they also serve as an effective substitute for a lack of non-verbal communication. Generally speaking, "what people say" is only half the story, and "how they say it" (the nuances of facial/bodily expressions, tone of voice, etc) is the other half.
When writing narratives, we get away from this by means of, well, narration. "... he said, cheerfully"; "... he replied, with just a twinge of annoyance to his voice"; "she said, while averting her eyes".
In first person communications like social media, we don't really have an effective way to communicate that sort of nuance. We do have action asterisks shudders in horror, shorthand expressions to represent actions like LOL, and emoji π€·ββοΈ as potential alternatives, as well as some community-driven linguistic nuance like Reddit's usage of "/s" to indicate sarcasm.
We could also go all old-timey letter writing and say things like "while I find myself hesitant to reply to you in fear that you will consider it an attack, I do find myself with some concerns in regards to your comment and will elaborate below. I hope that you will not take these concerns as dismissive of your opinion in any way, as I simply mean to clarify some doubts and seek your own opinion on my thoughts as presented above." (This might be an example of "overly eloquent" and there is probably a happy medium.)
I find the ever-evolving linguistics of internet communication to be really fascinating, if you can't tell!
i prefer to use them in microblogging platforms like mastodon :3
use your words!