Does anyone else think having emojis as a response to a comment/thread would be a neat addition instead of only upvote/downvote?

Reddit seemed to sorta do that with awards but thats not quite what I’m suggesting.

Something similar to GitHub for instance, except we keep the upvote downvote system as-is.

This would hopefully discourage the use of upvote/downvote as a “I like/dislike this” button while also adding the ability to more accurately express the emotion the post/comment illicited

Additionally, there are a lot of people who are mostly just lurkers and have no desire to post, but they want to be able to emote further then just a upvote/downvote but DON’T want to actually post a comment like “I love this” or “You’re so right” or even just commenting an emoji, because making a comment is a whole extra action that makes them visible, opens up to comments or upvotes/downvotes.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    No, I don’t think that. I like that Lemmy is not facebook, or whatsapp, or instagram, or youtube, ir reddit.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      Adding emojis as an optional response not requiring a comment (and not removing or interacting with the upvote/downvote system) wouldn’t make Lemmy as a whole anything like Facebook whatsapp Instagram or YouTube, that’s a very weird thing to say.