Never seen anybody using emoji in any community. I did use once or twice, but the way its absent over here, I’m starting to think its part of some implicit rules lemmy has

  • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    I grew up with the emoticons (thats what the text based ones are called? Like :D :P etc?). I never learned to use emojis. I remember when some services and platforms started to bring them on, there was options to turn them off, so I did that. Not sure why, but I did. This was in… 2005? Something like that. Since then I just never bothered to learn to use them. Some services you have to do the :word: thing to get a specific one, some services you need to scroll through millions of them to find the one you are looking for. I can express myself well enough with the text based ones, for me its more work to find a emoji than to just type a couple of characters on the keyboard.