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 ? 😭

  • @twice_twotimes
    3•7 months ago

    I think the older generation got used to the stereotype that if people were posting with emojis, they would naturally be making more immature posts (being younger).

    That’s interesting because I would have suggested the opposite. I learned to associate emojis with older internet users (boomers and up). I always understood Reddit’s anti-emoji thing to be a kind of anti-boomer gatekeeping. It had a kind of “take your Minions memes and go back to Facebook, grandma” kind of vibe.

    Reddit definitely does/did hate emoji though. I think it was even part of a written down “reddiquette” at some point.

    • @[email protected]
      1•7 months ago

      Emojis were a thing when people were chatting on MSN Messenger, ICQ, etc. Then people became older and it was seen as a young thing. This is why people were “against” it on Reddit.

      But, we are in 2023 and the emojis took the last couple of years the same trajectory as Facebook. It’s a boomer thing.

      You’re both right but not speaking about the same period.