why do lemmy users hate the use of emojis ?

Ī›dĪ›m_š’·@infosec.pub to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 205 points –

I'm a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you'll get an idea of the face I'm making, so less chance of misunderstanding

I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes..

On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis

So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? šŸ˜­

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I'm mentally old and out of touch with the kids, there are new emojis all the time and I have no idea what any of them mean. I spent all this time learning English and now half of the things people post are some sort of picture puzzle I lack the context to understand and have to guess the meaning of.

"old and out of touch with the kids"

"new emojis all the time and I have no idea what any of them mean"

joins hexbear, the instance with literally 2,000 custom emojis a load of which relate back to in jokes from years ago that the average outsider has no way of parsing