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.

  • ryan@the.coolest.zone
    31·
    1 year ago

    I think it could be fun if it were opt-in per community, similar to custom awards on Reddit but free. The downside would be losing compatibility with other ActivityPub implementations (although FireFish does have emoji reactions so implementing it the same way as FF would help to set a standard).

    • JakeroxsOP
      21·
      1 year ago

      Right, it would be something that could be implemented and understood more widely, if we never push the envelope in the name of interoperability, we won’t ever move forward. Obviously it can and should be done intelligently, not advocating to break everything with every change or anything like that

    • JakeroxsOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m actually curious what does the upvote/downvote button equate to for other activitypub implementations?

      • ryan@the.coolest.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        Upvote is like a Mastodon favorite, and should be used similar to a favorite across other ActivityPub implementations. Boost, likewise, is common across other implementations.

        (Fun fact though: kbin originally had these reversed - upvote performed a boost, and what is now called “boost” was originally favorite! This was switched a bit ago for better interoperability with Lemmy and other AP implementations.)

        Downvote, to my knowledge, is a unique implementation to Lemmy/kbin.