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?

    • DessalinesOPA
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      Based on the feedback here, we’d def add a UI option to hide them.

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker
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    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.

    • DessalinesOPA
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      I agree… similar to how we have the option to hide vote scores, we’d add an option to hide reactions.

  • Maya
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    I do love them, but it’d be hard for them to not get real visually noisy. Also they’d need to be moddable (ex: racists using monkey emojis to harass). Also would they be anonymous the way vote counts are? I think they’re a really fun feature but need careful thought before UI incorporation. (ooh, maybe they’d make sense to keep pretty small and have in a similar position to where Reddit puts comment gilding?)

    • DessalinesOPA
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      132 years ago

      For the UI, I was thinking they’d look similar to discord reactions, small, grouped, and at the bottom:

      I was originally thinking anonymous, but I never thought of ppl using them for nefarious purposes…

      • @Thann
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        You haven’t been around people long enough =P

  • @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    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.

  • Sr Estegosaurio
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    This is one of the most civilized, better argumented and well exposed discussions thata I seen in the internet in a long time.

  • riccardo
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    As long as I can disabled them…

  • @greensand
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    82 years ago

    What about using :) ;) ^^ -.- instead?

    • @Peter1986c
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      It would not be well-understood by Gen Z. :P

      Millenials are the last gen (in the West) to have grown up with the old-school style of typing emoticons, I think. But that may be just my impression.

  • @Thann
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    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 🤔

  • @TheConquestOfBed
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    Not super necessary, imo. But custom emojis would be nice and they seem to draw more people to a platform.

  • ✨ krawieck ✨
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    i think i’d be cute. tho i think they’d be more suitable for comments rather than posts

  • @daojones
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    72 years ago

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

  • @AgreeableLandscape
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    IMO, it’d be kind of redundant with the upvotes and downvotes, no? Like, you could already react positively or negatively with those. Though people don’t strictly use votes that way all the time.

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  • @M500
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    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.