The results are in!
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To use the emoji's simply type :duckass: :silver: :trollface: :thonk: :pikachu: :popcorn: :sad: :smash: or :facepalm:
Hello World,
Nothing as exciting as emojis, right? We would like to make it easier for you to express yourselves, so we'll be adding custom emojis to Lemmy.World. The question is, which ones? Let's pick together!
So, we're reaching out to everyone with a Lemmy.World account: Please provide a link to the image you'd like to suggest and upvote the ones you'd like to see! The most upvoted emoji's will, after review, be added to our list of custom emojis.
The emojis can be used by anyone on Lemmy.World in comments and posts.
Can we turn them off? I'm almost 40 and really couldn't give a flying fuck about emoji spam. I'm already about to ditch Voyager for putting emoji's on my app interface.
The last thing I think lemmy needs is another way for belligerent idiots to say something without saying anything. They do enough of that with words.
99% of emoticon responses:
A quick emoji can easily shift tone of text or be in place of a text action. But in general, one of my internet rules is; the more someone uses emojis, the dumber they are. Whether that be taking all the additional time to make themselves unintelligible, or trail their comment with two, three, or nineteen emojis, half of which are rofl faces ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐๐๐๐คช๐ซณ๐คโ๏ธ๐ช
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Edit: I feel dirty.
Emojis are a good way to try and mitigate the ubiquitous assumption of context that happens on text based forums.
Which is to say they've got a little upwards curve in indicating intelligence at the beginning prior to the plummet into dumpster fire territory you're associating them with... and I don't actually disagree with that, just a friendly addendum ;)
Is this about the new account highlightenator thingy that shows a ๐ถ next to new accounts?
If so, it is actually a good QoL feature, and it can be disabled under Settings -> General.
I find it denigrating.
What emoji in the Vgr interface are you talking about? I don't see them...
They added a new user badge with a baby face and how many days they have been active under x amount of days to every post by one of those flagged users. Also I'm using android native not web interface.
Ah.
They're just modern colorized hieroglyphics, no big deal to me.