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Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons? (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago by Slow@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[–] pistachio@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In msn messenger emoticons were what emojis are today. So to me emoticons and emojis are the same... i dont what to call the things op refers to... maybe ASCII emoticons?

Edit: turns out im wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

Edit: sort of wrong... emojis are also officially called emoticons