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

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[–] Slow@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What if you tried to express your emotional attitude to the person you are talking to? Or try to describe how you feel when you have had a good day.

I don't always do it well in text messages and then I use emoticons to reflect emotion.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Emoji might be the right choice there. Sometimes I'll just send back 🤷 or a gif in text messages or quicker formats but for something like Lemmy or Mastodon, I think a more effortful reply is desired since the point of those services is the conversation.