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Sure. This is not Reddit. ๐คค
Reddit's hatred of emojis was completely asinine. The only thing I could ever get anyone to say was that they hated emojis because they made people seem immature. But to my mind, caring that much and enforcing your thoughts on something immature is really immature. I posed the question about a month ago about why that was as early Redditfugees were asking how we could make Lemmy a better place, culturally, than Reddit ever was, and someone suggested that women use emojis more than men, and it was a way to gate keep Reddit's misogynistic culture. I'm not at all convinced of that, but it was interesting conceptually. Ultimately, I think where I fall is on the immaturity thing. People are so desperate to be seen as mature that they'll shitpost a lame joke that everyone, including themselves, know is lame, and bully people for using emoji. It's average 13-14 year old behavior
Depending on context, that can be a legitimate objection against using them. On the other hand, when used sparingly I don't mind them, I even see them being used internally at my work in a corporate environment. I am still not a fan of emojis on platforms like Lemmy depending on how they are used though. I just wrote a different comment about this and then saw yours, in order to not repeat myself: https://beehaw.org/comment/608537
Hopefully this is a bit more of an explanation that does make sense. ๐
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Wow, that is really fancy confetti. Isn't that the fanciest confetti emoji you've ever seen?