Texfaces

They're called Kaomoji btw.

https://www.unicodepedia.com/kaomoji/

I use text emoticons like I always have :D

I do not use emojis.

(・へ・)

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

(－‸ლ)

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

ಠ_ಠ

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

xDˣᴰ

You can't go wrong with a table flips (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

they just make me (ノ｀´)ノ ~┻━┻

and then I like to ─=≡Σ((((╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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

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.

3 emojis that complete a thought like:

🛩️💥🥂

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

None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.

I am old school :)

My keyboard has a built in text face keyboard

( ≧∀≦)ノ

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.

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")

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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

:) all day

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

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 like the classic ಠᴗಠ text faces

Emoji bad

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

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

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 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.

Twitch emotes baseg

All of them

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

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.

No

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Sauce

None, I never use emojis 🙅

:) 🙃

Depends on my keyboard at the time

🖨️

MSN Emoticons.

🗿

3==D