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why do lemmy users hate the use of emojis ? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by adam_b@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 ? 😭

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also remember a lot of hate for emojis on Reddit. Or maybe it's just the communities I frequented. But, most of the hate I saw linked them to Twitter and a dumbing down of discourse. I have the same sort of reaction to them, but I also recognize that they are becoming normalized in discourse and I really shouldn't have such a negative reaction. Some day, we'll probably have some make their way into formalized English and you would be considered weird, archaic and backwards for not using them. Consider how we now see the use of the words "thee" and "thou". Those used to be normal, but people got lazy and just started using "you" everywhere, despite it being the "wrong" usage. Now, it's just normal.

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I hated when they started allowing animated gifs in the comments.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"You" isn't lazy usage of "thou", they're both modern representations of "þou", the old spelling which changed to accommodate printing technology. "You" uses one fewer letter, so it became the preferred spelling.