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vexikron ,

Because lemmy users tend to be tech literate millennials or older, who were using the internet before it became a widely popular and used thing.

We remember a time before emojis. And to us, there is art, and more meaning in continuing the old ways of using textual symbols in clever ways to convey an emotion.

Emojis are a cop out, a cheap and easy way to do the same, invented for a mass audience that didnt want to do any thinking or be clever in any kind of way and wanted it all handed to them.

I realize this may sound silly but I will die on this hill: emojis are for children and the technically illiterate, they are an appropriation of a culture spawned by some gen x and mostly millennials when the curious of us forged our own way onto what was at one point in time a frontier of seemingly infinite possibility.

lil ,
@lil@lemy.lol avatar

Emoticons are too personal, emotional. Lemmy and Reddit are community oriented

hemko ,

For some reason emojis just feel out of the place here and reddit. I do use them in private chats and whatnot though

Kushia ,
@Kushia@lemmy.ml avatar

E(o)3

E(@)3 bonus prolapse edition

grahamja ,

Everything after ascii art was a mistake. It feels childish to use emoticons, a lot of users here grew up on platforms that only had text and to see emoticons is jarring. Needing to use an image for emotional context is poor writing.

Holyginz ,

Me personally I feel like it’s less about seeing them and more that I see so many.

callyral ,
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

i prefer to use them in microblogging platforms like mastodon :3

dylanTheDeveloper ,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

#🫄

MDKAOD ,

ಠ_ಠ

Ddhuud ,

Emoticons are representations of emotions. We don’t have those. We’re dead inside.

ShortFuse ,

We don’t like when people add color to our monochromatic text.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I use a phone and the more complicated emojis are harder to use 🤷

lutesolo ,

If you’re on Android, the emotion/sticker/gif browser in Gboard includes ASCII emoticons at the end! (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

yeah ,

:o)

qaz ,

People on Reddit rarely did, and I feel like this behavior has spread to Lemmy.

themurphy ,

True, it’s basically culture.

I use them for texts but never for Lemmy or reddit.

not_amm ,

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.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

That’s very thoughtful of you colon right parenthesis

7eter ,

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Feathercrown ,

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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