I like them used sparingly. There's art to using just the right emoji in the right spot that conveys a message in a way that is difficult to achieve with text.
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Made me go and check, but surprisingly lemmy doesn't have an emojipasta community
I would have thought that one would have made the jump
I think it might just be the old creeping in. Kids like emojis, and they weren't around when we were kids, so it is new and strange so I don't like it, etc.
I don't mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji we're looking at when the text is small.
To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.
TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.
Overuse of emojis can also really be annoying for people using screen readers. They clapping hands get clapping hand to clapping hands hear clapping hands something clapping hands like clapping hands this. So it's also an accessibility issue.
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I dislike emojis in general.
Lemmy has a lot of grumpy old folks who fear change so it just comes with the territory.
Odd because why would such people switch to a new platform?
Because they didnβt like the direction Reddit was heading I guess? But I donβt know the full answer. Iβve just noticed that Lemmy seems to skew older than I would have expected.
Maybe itβs just reflecting the demographics of the tech-savvy open source enthusiasts that might be interested in such a project? Are there young people with such interests still? And if so where are they?
Iβm also old, just not as grumpy as some, so I donβt really know what the young people are up to nowadays. Most I know in person seem to be on TikTok and instagram but thatβs not the tech crowd, if theyβre out there somewhere.
I grew up with forums where emoticons were substituted with smiley images (on badly coded ones, "8)" turned into "π" even when it was just a parenthetical ending with the number 8 or the eighth point in a bullet point list). I use emoji approximately when I would have used those smileys, it is a good thing they're now standardized, but other than that I find them unnecessary and distracting.
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At the font sizes I tend to view text in, I can read text clearly but emoji just look like blobs. The details are so small that ALL of the faces look like yellow circles.
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There are so many emoji, many of them with only slight differences between them, that they render each other meaningless.
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So many of them are being used as something else and keeping up with their actual meaning is just not worth the time.
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I thought lemmy got an emojipasta community when I saw your post π
omg π can you π«΅ imagine π§ ?? that would bee π crazyyy ππ€ͺ
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You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?
Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.
You know many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
While true that the term originates from Japanese, it's important to note that emoji is a loanword that has been adapted into english by changing its pronunciation subtly, and replacing its spelling with a phonetically similar one in an alphabet not used in Japanese.
This is similar to when words and phrases are used without much adaptation in the middle of sentences that are otherwise in a different language. There's a certain je ne sais quoi about English and how it mixes loanwords (such as "calque"), calques (such as "loanword", where individual parts of the word are translated then recombined) and entire unchanged terms (such as "je ne sais quoi") freely, and to varying degrees depending on where you are and who you talk to.
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East Asian languages aren't pictograms. Most use phonetic alphabets. Among those that don't, very few characters use visual resemblance to convey meaning, and no language uses primarily pictographical characters.
Their intentionally bland, unpleasant to look at, and it makes you look like you just got on to the internet for the first time in your life.
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Because some people are afraid to have emotion
We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just can't be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.
It definitely depends on the instance, but as a whole itβs probably a bit of carryover culture from the other place where emoji are not generally accepted.
I think using one here and there is fine. It's only annoying if there's more than one or if the comment is nothing but an emoji.
I do them anyways ignore the downvotes live your true self ββΆπ
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