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 ? 😭

    • Gabu@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I’ll be honest, your argumentation is bad. As in “a 10 year old might argue better” bad.

      looking at religious scriptures are misinterpreted all the time and used for nefarious purposes, should tell you something about relying on text

      Non sequitur, the conclusion doesn’t follow from the presented evidence. Religious scriptures were purposefully written with ambiguity and the intent of tricking in mind, but even if they weren’t, it doesn’t follow that all text is unreliable because some text is unreliable.

      emojis can ( It’s a possibility ) add context and mood to the discussion

      So can words, or other types of pictograms.

      plus they cute, that’s all

      That’s your subjective perception, I hate most emojis.

      I was just wondering why lemmings don’t use them and downvote who uses them ( not that I care about meaningless points ), turns out Lemmy has lots of boomers

      Boomers are the most likely demographic to spam emojis, after little children.