To use the emoji's simply type :duckass::silver::trollface::thonk::pikachu::popcorn::sad::smash: or :facepalm:
Hello World,
Nothing as exciting as emojis, right? We would like to make it easier for you to express yourselves, so we'll be adding custom emojis to Lemmy.World. The question is, which ones? Let's pick together!
So, we're reaching out to everyone with a Lemmy.World account: Please provide a link to the image you'd like to suggest and upvote the ones you'd like to see! The most upvoted emoji's will, after review, be added to our list of custom emojis.
The emojis can be used by anyone on Lemmy.World in comments and posts.
Ahem. I am not a fan of encouraging people to post giant low-content images in Lemmy threads. It is really nice to have a mostly textual medium, and inserting huge Pikachus or Picards or Frys into it is not an improvement to this user experience. Many of the images in this thread appear at around ⅓ of screen height in the default browser UI, and they have very little new to say.
If this sort of feature has to exist, please consider limiting it to rather small images, more in the "icon" range than the "memegens" range.
I think hexbear emojis are small on their instance but they are gigantic on every other instance. That might be the case here too. As a non world member I don't wish to see giant images.
Can we turn them off? I'm almost 40 and really couldn't give a flying fuck about emoji spam. I'm already about to ditch Voyager for putting emoji's on my app interface.
The last thing I think lemmy needs is another way for belligerent idiots to say something without saying anything. They do enough of that with words.
A quick emoji can easily shift tone of text or be in place of a text action. But in general, one of my internet rules is; the more someone uses emojis, the dumber they are. Whether that be taking all the additional time to make themselves unintelligible, or trail their comment with two, three, or nineteen emojis, half of which are rofl faces 🤣🤣🤣👍👍🙏🤪🫳🎤✌️🚪
Emojis are a good way to try and mitigate the ubiquitous assumption of context that happens on text based forums.
Which is to say they've got a little upwards curve in indicating intelligence at the beginning prior to the plummet into dumpster fire territory you're associating them with... and I don't actually disagree with that, just a friendly addendum ;)
They added a new user badge with a baby face and how many days they have been active under x amount of days to every post by one of those flagged users. Also I'm using android native not web interface.
community centric emotes would be so cool 😭 I wish there was some system like discord on Lemmy where if you subscribe to a community it'd let you use their emotes anywhere
I'm sure they are. This is just a fun little community building thing. I'm not a web dev but I can't imagine implementing an emoji into comments wouldn't take all day.
I mean, literally not including this feature would be pretty useful in not reverting our means of communication down to, essentially, hieroglyphs. Would be cool if Lemmy didn't take all the stupid features from Reddit too.