People use words to express their feelings rather than emojis.
Emojis are less serious and a comment that uses them extensively is taken much less seriously than a comment without emojis.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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They have better taste.
I don't really feel the need to use them to express myself. I try to use words instead :-)
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Lemmy is a discussion based social media. Smiley are cool for social medias like facebook
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We could invert the question: why do people wherever you're contrasting use them more?
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