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Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?
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For me emoticons were something that started when all of the boomers came to Facebook. Floods and floods of useless emojis left and right. So now I feel weird using them, like I'm cheapening the platform while also acting like the people that ruined Facebook for me
I have a negative attitude to standard emoticons built into Android and iOS. They don’t look good, they’re too many.
I'm interested to know who uses emoticons depicting, for example, player rewind icons or rectangular shapes. Are there people who use these emoticons at least once a year?
I make apps and I use them for prototyping buttons and stuff... So yeah, pretty often.
Sounds intriguing. How does that look?
Could just look like this. It's a dumb little stopwatch app I made some time ago to explain a different concept. All it uses is plain HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Because I could use emojis as icons, I didn't need to bring in a separate icon pack.
If I didn't have access to emojis at all, I probably would have just used text only... But if I'm prototyping an app that I'm building for someone else, it helps make it look closer to the real thing, and that's kinda nice.