I use regular emojis, occasionally.

And I still like “Dongers”! I’ll use it if I want!

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I’ve never been against them globally, just depends on the community theme. They’re inappropriate on serious communities I think still.

String four 🤣🤣🤣🤣 together on a debate board and the urge reach through their screen and strangle them like Homer and Bart becomes intense.

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 ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Emojis are for the girls and the homies. Sorry, I don’t know y’all like that.

Because no one on lemmy has emotions of course :3 /j

(But ever since I figured out that entering LLAP into the compose key thingy results in the vulcan salute emoji (🖖) I have considered signing off my posts with that lol)

I miss vBulletin emoticons.

The unicode ones are lame.

I’ve softened on them over time (I used to HATE posts with them as it felt weird/immature/lazy to me), but I’m still not big on using them on platforms like mbin. I still use my emoticons and the odd kaomoji, but I tend not to use emoji here. If I see a ton in one post, though, I still just skip whatever it is, typically.

the small emotion symbols

Possibly you mean emoticons? ^⁠_⁠^

I don’t really care why, just glade it’s the case.

I shamelessly jack hexbear emojis

I mostly use emojis as either a quick reaction or as a way of acknowledging that I read something someone I know sent me. They make a lot less sense in places like Reddit or Lemmy, where interaction is more impersonal and commenting doesn’t feel worth it unless you have something substantial to say.

That’s like greeting a toddler and asking parents why she’s lice-free.

Reddit hivemind deep rooted into our brains

I use them almost exclusively as reactions or to convey tone — and even then, the music notes get used most often, to indicate singing

since lemmy lacks reactions (beyond voting), I rarely have cause

Lemmy is full of boring old farts.