I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding

I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes…

On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis

So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? 😭

  • ΛdΛm_𝒷@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “On Reddit people use emojis a lot” - that genuinely is not the experience on Reddit I had

    I see, many replies I got said similar thing, I only used Reddit in the last couple of years, I became aware of old reddit when they killed 3rd party apps, so I’m not an old citizen of reddit as you can see

    You just might want to remember that a lot of the people who hated new Reddit and a lot of the people who left Reddit for Lemmy the first time are/were going to be old-timers (by internet standards), so you might find fewer like-minded people here.

    Oh, this makes lots of sense, I always felt like I’m talking to someone older than me on Lemmy, idk why? Sometimes they do mention their age or they have kids… Etc

    As a last note, your saying you “miss emojis” makes me feel extra old (and I don’t think I’m old at all!)

    hehe 😅, I don’t mean it like there is no emojis on the internet anymore, it’s just Lemmy is so similar to Reddit, but users here don’t use emojis ( not as much ), they use emoticons

    I got a few good answers on why someone may dislike emojis, which were interesting