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Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?

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

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Dave@lemmy.nz
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Are emojis considered emoticons? Call me old but I think this is an emoticon ;-) and this is an emoji 😉

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ambiance@beehaw.org
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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

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shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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We called those “smileys”. May be a local thing though

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