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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

¯⁠\(o⁠‿o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think my Lemmy client does not support emojis, but it supports Lenny faces. Maybe that's why, Lemmy loves Lenny ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

They have better taste.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We must change them!

Require them to symbolically emote at least once per post/comment.

 

>:-}

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a discussion based social media. Smiley are cool for social medias like facebook

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

We could invert the question: why do people wherever you're contrasting use them more?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe because this is (still) the more adult place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

People keep asking this....

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