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.

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?)

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.

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

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 🤔

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

As long as I can disabled them…

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nay

yay from me

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.