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Depends.

I rather use these: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Emojis are a trashy signal for me I hate them. I want my text monochrome. Cool unicode symbols get a pass. "⚠" Yes "⚠️" no.

Never?

My whole username is emoji. And I'm everywhere. 🫩

I've always been of the opinion that one can use their words. I've never read anything with emojis crammed in where I felt they've added anything of substance. It just seems lazy and a bit trashy.

Yes. I'm well aware I'm a curmudgeon. I make no apologies.

I use them on discord on sometimes on othef chat platforms. I don't really like them in longer form text like lemmy or reddit.

They also, at least for me, carry context that doesn't make that much sense outside one community. For example I used laughing cat emoji that we use to signify being amused and a guy from a different community thought I was mocking him.

𓀥 | 𓁆 𓀕
𓁆 𓀟 | 𓀣 𓁀

It's not that I dislike emoji, but that using them is more effort than a casual comment deserves.

I like ASCII emojis more. Emojis feel creepy sometimes I like the purple heart

Emojis remind me of LLM slop

Emojis are for people who don't know how to read/write the local language. No exceptions. That includes 'native speakers' of the language who use them. Emoji are a sign of illiteracy and people who use them were failed by their education.

I see Lemmy as an older crowd that prefers ASCII emotes. Although the do work in some situations.

I think my first thought is that MAGA’s rage bot farms will use a lot of laughing emojis to taunt people.

it's just personal preference 🤷‍♀️

I use them about as often and i the same context as intentional facial expressions. 😅

I've been conditioned over time to not use them on internet forums but I use them a lot when texting. So it feels kind of weird to see one around on a Lemmy comment but I don't hate them

In neck of the woods the emoji 🙏🙏🙏

is practically a professional requirements.

has to be 3 🙏

Personally I am happy to be free of this arbitrary rule of Reddit sheep culture that you can't use emojis. People here have the courtesy to use them as appropriate, and I myself use them occasionally. I hope we all just keep it that way.

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It's just that everyone is miserable here and it would be a river of sad and crying faces in every conversation..

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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My "I'm being kidnapped, send help" secret code is "I start using emoji"

I think a few old school text emoji's are fine, when used in moderation.

:D

I think relying on cute lil pictures littered throughout text to convey your message is lazy, distracting and childish.

No but they're fine, and also yes sometimes 🙂

i don't use them here usually.

I probably use the 🙃 emoji most.

Because it does not really have an equivalent in ASCII emoticons.

I like that it's not much in use here.

I have to think more carefully about what words I type and how to convey my emotions in text. It's good to practice written communication, and it's good to be comfortable with it for when you want to be taken more seriously.

And I kinda assume those who splatter their text with emojis are bots or LLMs programmed to sound more human, or people trying to imply or invoke emotions to sell me on some nonsense or other, so I don't read those comments or posts anyway.

It's fun that Lemmy has its own culture which comes as a little shock but is easy to adapt to once you figure it out, isn't it?