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?

  • @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    10•3 years ago

    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.

  • @Thann@lemmy.ml
    7•3 years ago

    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 🤔

  • @daojones@lemmy.ml
    6•3 years ago

    I love them because it gives you a succinct way to reply without having to type out a response.

  • CHEF-KOCH
    5•3 years ago

    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.

  • poVoq
    5•3 years ago

    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.

  • @M500@lemmy.ml
    4•3 years ago

    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.