Upvoted for being unpopular because damn that's some unpopular shit
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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I had to reverse my vote when I realized the community. I can never remember how the rules work. Am I supposed to upvote? Hah
Upvoted as unpopular.
I hate 99% of the emoji usage but the idea has some merits. I feel like the sort of "anonymous reaction" that we give in Lemmy should be a bit more fine-grained than just up/downvotes.
Anybody else remember Slashdot? I always liked its moderation (and metamoderation!) system, where you could rate things +1 "interesting," "insightful," "informative," "funny," "underrated," or -1 "overrated," "troll," "offtopic," or "flamebait" (I think that was all of them...).
I, for one, remember our former Slashdot overlords :^)
To-the-point: I think that Slashdot got the right idea. We vote on things for multiple reasons, not just to make them more/less visible; it's a form of communication.
Nobody wants a visual cacophony of zoomer hieroglyphics on every post, so yes congratulations on the unpopular opinion .
visual cacophony of zoomer hieroglyphics
This made me literally laugh out loud, wow
How are emoji zoomer ? If I had to guess of say they're more of a millennial thing
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upvoted but realized which community this was posted so i had to un-vote (i think thats how it works here)
emoji reactions and especially actual custom emojis that are not broken inline markdown images are one of the defining parts of the actually fun parts of the fedi and not having any (even as an option you can disable) just makes this site look even more of a boring politics shitflinging and linux evangelism platform instead of somewhere you can expect people to relax and have fun at
they are way less of a distraction than replies with reaction images and 10 gigabyte animated gifs which take up half your screen and seem to be favored by the people here considering the negative reactions (ha!) this opinion got
i'd also be in favor of MFM, too. doing MFM art is much more of a creative expression than shilling firefox or grumbling about how the US is falling apart
just,,,,, please implement them correctly and in an interoperable fashion, and not like the broken mess of a custom emoji system lemmy has today
I would love that! There could be emojis for good, bad, funny, sad, neutral, and wtf. Then, users could choose to see posts based on the mood rather than the simple up/down dichotomy.
So like Facebook?
I'm actually surprised to see comments saying this is unpopular. I actually thought it sounded refreshing.
When I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, I stopped sorting everything by Top. I got tired of seeing the highest voted posts and comments in my feed and wanted to see a variety of things instead.
Now, the top of my feed is not necessarily the highest voted or most popular opinion, and I can enjoy a variety of comments under posts without just reading what the community most agrees with at the top of a feed.
Finding a different and unique way to sort posts and comments would be interesting, in my opinion. For instance, if I want to see funny or sarcastic remarks instead of serious ones, I could just sort by laugh reacts.
But... I understand how much work it would be to change an entire community over to that standard, and I realize it's not really reasonable. So I get the unpopular opinion. I just think it would be fun to see.
I would say solely doing this would be unpopular and I wouldn’t be for it.
I could see it working. Properties:
Assign each emoji an up/downvote and keep the current system. Hitting an emoji also does one of these.
Have a separate bar for emojis that is collapsed by default
Make emojis optional so you can still up/downvote
Make emojis optional so you can still up/downvote
modern not-misskey implementations of federated emoji reactions do separate likes from reactions, if lemmy doesn't want to reinvent the wheel (they have no reason to!), this will most likely be how it'll work
Downvotes are why I'm here!
Social media without downvotes are just propaganda mills, reinforcing bad behavior.
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Nobody will probably remember canv.as but you would give people emoji stickers like that. Cookies were the participation award. I loved that site.
tf is misskey?
googles
server list
4th column instance has free speech and cunny in the same sentence
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nah lets not take influence from them
Wtf are you talking about?
Edit: I could not verify what this guy claimed at all. It's mostly Japanese user instances and that's about it.
I filtered by english instances, that's where the weird stuff emerged
angry Facebook emoji
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Then we can make a lemmy client that spews the emoji reacts as bubbles over the screen everytime you load a post
Wow, this is the right lemmy for that post…. I do agree with you, though.
Upvoted for being unpopular. I already block people who use emojis here anyway
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NOSTR does this too