Emojis and Lemmy
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
My take on it is that emojis are used more in casual or interpersonal conversations where they do add tone and emphasis. Most of the topics, at least on my feed, are technical or political and emojis either seem unnecessary/out of place there.
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
Because my millennial ass still uses emoticons :l
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Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.
It's "boomer" to use emoji? The fuck?
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My whole name is emojis.
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๏ธWhat emoji are those letters? I can't find them on Gboard at least.
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Smileys are where it's at.
Emoticons?
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
wrote last edited by [email protected]the small emotion symbols
Possibly you mean emoticons? ^โ _โ ^
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Because they make you seem like an AI or spammer or a boomer.
Why a boomer of all things? O.O
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It's "boomer" to use emoji? The fuck?
The stupid Facebook posts with an over sized
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
That made me realise of one thing, if I'm on PC I have no idea how to write an emoji. I don't even know if they're available, I imagine they are, but not a clue of how.
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
It's kind of funny how I was recently thinking that Lemmy and other Fediverse services seem to be at least tolerant of occasional emoji use. Just don't overdo it and you'll probably be fine.
Compared to, say, Reddit. If you used emoji there, you either got murdered by the spam filter and you will never succeed in your life and you don't know why (there are other ways to trigger it, of course), or it goes through, and the fedoras shall descend upon you.
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That made me realise of one thing, if I'm on PC I have no idea how to write an emoji. I don't even know if they're available, I imagine they are, but not a clue of how.
On Windows, it's Windows key + .
On Linux, there's an app called Characters to copy paste emojis from, and some apps use custom key combinations such as Super + ;, or Fn + ;, or something like that
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What emoji are those letters? I can't find them on Gboard at least.
wrote last edited by [email protected]They're in the unicode table thing. "Character Map"utility in Windows should have them. There's also online things to just turn regular text into fancy text.
The O, however, is the hurricane/swirl emoji.
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
I'm quite happy to not see emojis spammed everywhere, I can deal with an emoticon or two - more so if actually useful for setting tone - but much more than that and you're pushing it.
I tend to associate posts peppered with emojis with either immaturity or those out of their depth when it comes to technology. I'm sure it's not always true but it does seem to correlate well with either kids or those whose typing method includes just tapping on the emoji whenever their phone keyboard suggests it.
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
I see them as a crutch for people without a large grasp of their spoken language. Emojis are then new "very".
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don't even want to see them here.
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On Windows, it's Windows key + .
On Linux, there's an app called Characters to copy paste emojis from, and some apps use custom key combinations such as Super + ;, or Fn + ;, or something like that
you can also use rofi as a helper
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What emoji are those letters? I can't find them on Gboard at least.
wrote last edited by [email protected]They are regional indicators, groups (usually pairs) form the flags, which are in fact multiple characters but behave like a single glyph in a text editor. You can input them and other Unicode "fonts" using the Irregular Expressions keyboard. Their rendering differs wildly but they are usually small caps, sometimes in boxes (dotted or blue) or bold/filled blue themselves.
For people using Lemmy clients that only show usernames, @[email protected]'s display name is "๐ฐ
๐ฑ ๐ฆ ๐ณ ๐ฆ ๐ฐ ๐ฎ". Without spaces nor zero-width non-joiners, the name becomes "๐ฐ
" (LAos, NAmibia, KIribati) - you can copy the name into an editor, delete the spaces yourself and see the flags appear. I'd be really surprised if any automatically inserted ZWNJs. -
The stupid Facebook posts with an over sized
about a mild joke.Well yeah, overreacting is pretty cringe-inducing, I agree. But not the use of emoji as a concept, IMO. I think conveying emotion or intent or tone using them is good for communication in general. Makes things more personal and clear.
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On Windows, it's Windows key + .
On Linux, there's an app called Characters to copy paste emojis from, and some apps use custom key combinations such as Super + ;, or Fn + ;, or something like that
It's windows + : for me?
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Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]
wrote last edited by [email protected]I actually prefer emoji-lite conversation, meaning emoji is there to enhance the comment/text, and not mere spamming of one. Like for example
"i don't think i can do that
" kinda feels lighthearted with the emoji than without it. But "i don't think i can do that " is just pure obnoxious, to me at least. I'm not gonna chastise anyone for doing that of course.Also i do prefer kaomoji more แ( แ )แ
