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why do lemmy users hate the use of emojis ? (infosec.pub)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 ? 😭

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I understanding these are not emojis, just pictures that load on the server using HTML, that's why they appeare bigger on other servers

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

But that's what custom emojis essentially are, small pictures you can embed into text, just like with Twitch emotes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

they were emojis before we de-forked, what you see now was how mainline lemmy maintainers wanted the custom emoji feature contributed back to their codebase