Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons? - eviltoast

Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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  • ambiance@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Agreed! Although the little image things on message boards like phpBB, ProBoards and Invision were also emoticons, even though they were basically early onset emojis