Asklemmy

well I don't have such a menu for those premade faces, so I just use emoji's instead..., those larger ones take up too much space imo.

I'll use :) , :(, :/, :P, :D, :|, ;) :O, XD... they are nice and compact and get the point across.

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Well, personally, I grew up with more primitive emoticons and usually just eschew including smiles entirely. I'll use them with friends but I tend to communicate more formally in public forums.

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Haven't felt the need to use them as often. Emojis and "lol haha" work fine for me.

I'm on desktop :(

Voyager has them

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Because we're adults.

Emojis really don't have a use outside of shitpost communities. I very rarely will use them here on Lemmy

For some reason emojis just feel out of the place here and reddit. I do use them in private chats and whatnot though

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We could invert the question: why do people wherever you're contrasting use them more?

In-group signalling. One of the many microhabits you need to acquire in order to fit in with the local culture and nothing more. As usual, people make up reasons to justify why their cultural proclivities are objectively right but these are without exception completely post-hoc.

People use words to express their feelings rather than emojis.

Emojis are less serious and a comment that uses them extensively is taken much less seriously than a comment without emojis.

use your words!

It's a pain with markdown.

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We must change them!

Require them to symbolically emote at least once per post/comment.

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Its just the group we have. I use basic ones sometimes. But I also come from a time before emoji existed.

They have better taste.