Asklemmy

Don't generally see a reason to

Because this isn't Reddit.. I'm after quality discussions

I'm on desktop :(

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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.

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.

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

If I had to guess… it’s because most people on Lemmy are over the age of 12?

Because we're adults.

Voyager has them

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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 must change them!

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

>:-}

I think my Lemmy client does not support emojis, but it supports Lenny faces. Maybe that's why, Lemmy loves Lenny ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

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It's a pain with markdown.

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

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!