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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] 2 points 1 year ago

E(o)3

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In chats I use emojis very often, but I here I feel like some emojis may not show properly, so I avoid them. Though here I tend to use smiles and such :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dunno

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just find the generic yellow emojis used on most platforms annoying. Forums, Discord servers, or other sites that have custom emojis or older-looking "smilies" are more appealing to me.

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use them all the time, but I've been told it's frowned upon on Reddit (and once I was told it was cringe).

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