What kind of Emoji do you use on Lemmy, if any? 🤩 :) (͡•

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They're called Kaomoji btw.
https://www.unicodepedia.com/kaomoji/
- Didn’t know that, thanks :)
- A few of those actually use emojis in the kaomoji

I do not use emojis.
- ಠ⁠︵⁠ಠ
- I think the "regular" emoji feel somewhat out of place here
  
  Why would anyone need to express emotions in a universal language?
  🙄

I use text emoticons like I always have :D
- Timeless.
  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
  
  ┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
  
  Your parenthesis don't match .
- OwO
  For some emotions there isn't even an emoji yet.
  UwU
  
  And let's hope there never is.
- I miss my forum emoticons.

this one. only this one:

(・へ・)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
(－‸ლ)
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
ಠ_ಠ
¯(ツ)/¯
xDˣᴰ
- Do you copy and paste every time you use text emojis with specail characters? Do you have them saved on your phone/computer for easy access?
  
  Sync has a ton built in, so just a button click.
  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  ಠ_ಠ
  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
  ┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
  ¯(ツ)/¯
  ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
  (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
  ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
  (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
  ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
  (👁 ͜ʖ👁)
  (งツ)ว
  ʘ‿ʘ
  ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
  (•_•)
  ( •_•)>⌐■-■
  (⌐■_■)
  [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
  (シ_ _)シ
  
  I use Gboard which has them in the emoji menu: ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ ᕙ⁠(⁠＠⁠°⁠▽⁠°⁠＠⁠)⁠ᕗ (⁠゜⁠o⁠゜⁠; (⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠♪ ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ (⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ ಠ⁠︵⁠ಠ ╏⁠ ⁠”⁠ ⁠⊚⁠ ͟⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠⊚⁠ ⁠”⁠ ⁠╏ →⁠(⁠°⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠°⁠)⁠┗
  (Just a few examples)
  
  If you are on Android...
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slaughter.look.of.disapproval
  
  Voyager has some of these built in now
  
  If you're on Windows, press the Windows key and the period key to get the emoji keyboard.
  
  I have them pinned in my phone clipboard xDˣᴰ

big fan of the old school blob emoji with cat ears
- Emojis like these are built in... 😺 🙀 😻 🐈
  Not quite the same, but you can just type :cat and it pops up a quick list.
  
  I gratuitously use cat emoji don't worry. It's not the same without blobby though.

You can't go wrong with a table flips (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
they just make me (ノ｀´)ノ ~┻━┻
and then I like to ─=≡Σ((((╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
- ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
  
  (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
- (⁠┛⁠❍⁠ᴥ⁠❍⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

Personally, I'm OK with emoji as long as you don't spam them (3+ times the same emoji is spamming imo)
1 emoji for a normal expression
2 emoji for a heavy expression
3 emoji is still acceptable but my personal limit of tolerance
- I've always read 3+ back to back as a form of satire or sarcasm
  
  I mainly encountered boomers when reading more than 3 emoji

Instance admins can add images to be used as emojis via the emoji picker.

- I like the cowboy one.
  It's like I'm suffering but in a lil hat.

All of the above.
I resisted using emojis for a long time, but I changed jobs during Covid and was working from home permanently. I suddenly worked with a bunch of people I had never met before, and I realized that these people don't know my demeanor, so they don't know how to read my tone. I found emojis are almost necessary to convey tone in this situation. And after that, it kinda stuck.

- Finally, an emoji that's worth being that big

3 emojis that complete a thought like:
🛩️💥🥂
- General Pringles?
  
  SHOIGU!!!!
- Celebrating a plane explosion?
  
  I miss my favorite hot dog vendor 😞🌻

I'm a fan of emojis that I can hear.

None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.
- (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
  
  ☜(°ヮ°☜)

I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I've avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.
- what are proper emojis?
  
  😃
  
  This is "proper": 😀
  This is "old-timey": :D

Regular emoji is just easier. But I do have a keyboard shortcut for the ¯(ツ)/¯ which is my main textface, if annoying to edit his arm back in
- I wouldn't use those if Lemmy apps didn't have them inbuilt ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

I am old school :)
- ASCII alone already does offer a rather wide range of emotions, no need for unicode. :D
  
  🫨

Old school smileys :-) because My Keyboard app doesn't have a emoji board.

My usage is fairly restricted:
old school :) for non-sarcastic irony
(¬¬) for eye rolling
shorthand emojis (e.g. if talking about Stardew Valley, instead of "the four hearts event" I might type "the 4♥ event")
as a way to avoid a specific word for metalinguistic reasons (e.g. "⟨dog⟩ is the signifier, 🐶 is the signified")

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

I like the classic ಠᴗಠ text faces

My keyboard has a built in text face keyboard
( ≧∀≦)ノ

- Oh damn, I haven't seen kirbys in text form in ages.

The only one I use super frequently is :3 which I imagine isn't a surprise to anyone lol

:) all day

Ü

I don't use them on Lemmy, nobody else really does so it seems out of place. If I'm talking to one of my friends, it's a different story.

I generally don't use emojis because I don't think I understand the nuances of emoji well enough to throw them out there for strangers on the internet to interpret.

Whatever suits the point. Emojis are a tool for communication, and should not be shunned just because some butterflies just them as personal flair. Emoticons are classic and hearken back to an earlier time, when things were bespoke and not run through committees for approval before we're allowed to use them. ᕦ⁠⊙⁠෴⁠⊙⁠ᕤ

I only use them in games, but these:
xD
:D
:o

Emoji bad

I use what best conveys the emotion behind the text. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    
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Sauce

Ah yes. That frequently expressed emotion.

just fyi, Matrix has custom emojis per instance and custom to the user like discord does.

No

None, I never use emojis 🙅

Ü
- "

Depends on my keyboard at the time

All of them

Twitch emotes baseg

So far I have used exactly one emoji here, and only once so far.
😉
I'm not a big emoji guy overall, but there are certain jokes and such that require inflection in your voice or certain body language to land properly. Obviously that's not an option in a text basud conversation so emoji fills in that gap for me.
I don't particularly mind people using emojis in other ways, though I do think using a lot of them gives off a weird vibe, but for me personally I mostly prefer to use my words, and using emojis only sparingly makes them feel like they have more impact to me when I do use them.

:) 🙃

🖨️

🗿

3==D

Anyone know if there’s a way to block emojis on iOS?