Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?
Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?
Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?
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How much of the current lemmy base are ex-reddit? I remember emoticons being heavily frowned upon there. It may be a cultural hangover from the rexodus peeps.
I thought they hated emoji not emoticons
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)A distinction I did not make, good point. Maybe I misunderstand, I thought emojis and emoticons were the same thing.
Or is it an "all emojis are emoticons, but all emoticons are not emojis" kinda situation?
Emoji are specifically these originally from Japan: 😃🤫👋🌐🥥
Emoticons are made from other characters, usually punctjation: :), o_O, ;_; etc
I hate to defer to a random comment because as is well established, Einstein famously said "don't believe everything you read on the internet"... but the dictionary has to be deferred to, and it backs up your comment. I stand corrected, thanks for the info!
I'm not good at this either. For me, any small image that can be added at the end of a text is a emoticon.
I looked up the dictionary definition in a fit of pedantry earlier and they're right, they do refer to distinct different things. The more you know ey!
Emoticon have been used in the west long before emoji. I remember on iPhone 4 you had to enable Japanese keyboard to even access emoji. You could send them to someone and they'd be confused how you made a little picture.