Does anyone else think having emojis as a response to a comment/thread would be a neat addition instead of only upvote/downvote?

Reddit seemed to sorta do that with awards but thats not quite what I’m suggesting.

Something similar to GitHub for instance, except we keep the upvote downvote system as-is.

This would hopefully discourage the use of upvote/downvote as a “I like/dislike this” button while also adding the ability to more accurately express the emotion the post/comment illicited

Additionally, there are a lot of people who are mostly just lurkers and have no desire to post, but they want to be able to emote further then just a upvote/downvote but DON’T want to actually post a comment like “I love this” or “You’re so right” or even just commenting an emoji, because making a comment is a whole extra action that makes them visible, opens up to comments or upvotes/downvotes.

  • JakeroxsOP
    31·
    1 year ago

    My only problem with this is threads can quickly become overrun if everyone did that, I’m thinking like discord style

      • JakeroxsOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        Idk if you saw like Hexbear users putting emojis and everyone getting upset about it because it displays different to them with their version of Lemmy (apparently)

    • Imgonnatrythis
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t forsee threads being overrun on Lemmy anytime soon (with the exception of hexbear spam perhaps).

      • JakeroxsOP
        21·
        1 year ago

        I’ve already seen many examples where a top level comment has 15-20 replies (not each continuing into their own thread) which is difficult to keep track of sometimes and having more emotive options would likely cut down on certain responses like just an emoji comment or things like “this” because an upvote doesn’t feel like “enough” but a comment is also not really adding to the discussion

        • Imgonnatrythis
          2·
          1 year ago

          If people on Lemmy start responding with “this” I’m fuckin out of here

          • JakeroxsOP
            22·
            1 year ago

            You haven’t seen that already? Lol I definitely have, I’ve done it myself because sometimes I want that extra bit of satisfaction that an upvote doesn’t give on it’s own.

              • JakeroxsOP
                21·
                1 year ago

                Eh, then they shouldn’t have made many many decisions I disagree with and killed off my favorite app in the name of $$$

                I didn’t exactly want to leave reddit, but I can’t stand what it’s become. I like the format but hate the company.

                You act like you think you’re better then people simply because they do something you find annoying, that’s not a great personality trait.

                Also, I’ve been using forums of various types/formats for decades, it’s not just a “reddit” thing to say this, or puns, or many other things that people like to hate on because “redditors” do it.