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 ? 😭

  • @vvv
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    86 months ago

    It might be an attention thing. With an emoji in a post your eyes are drawn towards the cute colorful picture before you l’ve read the content of the post. Emoticons on the other hand don’t stand out as much, but serve a similar purpose: punctuate a thought with an emotion (=