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Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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I think most oldies are embarrassed by them. I'm not though, but I only surf the world wide web from my phone, so perhaps I'm more hip 😎
Emoji give us an extra avenue of encoding emotion into our text, something that is usually difficult. So I think everyone should be using them 🤓
I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I'm not sure if they work terribly well