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[Lemmy] forget up/down votes. Lemmy should embrace emoji reacts like Misskey.
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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upvoted but realized which community this was posted so i had to un-vote (i think thats how it works here)
emoji reactions and especially actual custom emojis that are not broken inline markdown images are one of the defining parts of the actually fun parts of the fedi and not having any (even as an option you can disable) just makes this site look even more of a boring politics shitflinging and linux evangelism platform instead of somewhere you can expect people to relax and have fun at
they are way less of a distraction than replies with reaction images and 10 gigabyte animated gifs which take up half your screen and seem to be favored by the people here considering the negative reactions (ha!) this opinion got
i'd also be in favor of MFM, too. doing MFM art is much more of a creative expression than shilling firefox or grumbling about how the US is falling apart
just,,,,, please implement them correctly and in an interoperable fashion, and not like the broken mess of a custom emoji system lemmy has today