I find myself using them on pretty much every platform that has them: matrix, masto, discord, etc.
These would be completely separate from votes, and have no affect on sorting.
What do you think the positives and negatives would be of having them?
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Based on the feedback here, we’d def add a UI option to hide them.
This
It can become a virtual reward and punishment mechanism that feels like a dopamine sucker. Think of what likes and dislikes, or these reaction emojis did to Facebook posts.
All platforms seem to have them now, except they make theirs paid. Think about it: custom emojis linked to your instance that work cross-instances. And why stop there? Use all emojis from other instances that are federated to yours as well. All free, without limitations, for all users.
Argument 2: they’re just fun.
Argument 3: reactions can cut down on useless replies. Many forums have had a “thanks” system in place for years before it was popular and I think it helps cut down on “came here to say this” or “+1” replies. Scratches that itch of not being the first one to offer a solution.
What about using :) ;) ^^ -.- instead?
Sounds good for me :D
One possible implementation would be coalescing “single-glyph-responses” into a “reaction count” on the ui-layer. so instead of seeing several identical comments like:
👍, its visually more like slack, but on the backend its just a regular comment 🤔As long as I can disabled them
I love them because it gives you a succinct way to reply without having to type out a response.
Not super necessary, imo. But custom emojis would be nice and they seem to draw more people to a platform.
GitHub also adopted it, and I would say it depends on the platform and target.
For a developer platform I find this unprofessional, but for traditional chat systems it might be useful if you quickly want to go through lots of messages and get a first impression about what the community thinks about topic X.
On Lemmy I would prefer emojis to up and down votes, the reason is that people often do not bother to explain why they up or down voted it.
I would argue, overall, that adding it puts maybe a bit more pressure on the server for no actual benefit.
meh
🤩 please.
I don’t think they are necessary per-se, but would be nice for cross-system federation, similar to how polls like in Mastodon aren’t really necessary in Lemmy, but would be still nice to have.
yay from me
yay
I’m in favor of them. It’s kind of like Reddit awards but without having to pay for them.
Maybe the community would have a kind of culture around them were 🦃 is like the best emoji you could give a post.
It wouldn’t really make any sense but it works still be part of the culture of this platform.
