• Adanisi
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    9 months ago

    If you have something to say, actually explain it instead of the obnoxious emoji spam.

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      9 months ago

      It’s completely off-topic, but you know 4chan filters? Like, replacing “fam” with “senpai” and stuff like this?

      So. It would be damn great if Lemmy had something similar. Except that it would replace emojis, “lol” and “lmao” with “I’m braindead.”

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          9 months ago

          That extension is fun, but it doesn’t “gently shame” the person spamming emojis by replacing their emojis with “I’m braindead” in a way that themself would see.

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              9 months ago

              Contrariwise to your blatant assumption, I’m not proposing a system where users can edit each others’ posts. I’m just toying with the idea of word filters, not too different from the ones that already exist for slurs in Lemmy.

              For example. If you write [insert slur here], it gets replaced with removed. What if it replaced emojis with “I’m braindead.”? That’s it.

              (Before yet another assumer starts doing its shit: the idea is not too serious.)

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                  9 months ago

                  They would be less obnoxious if used sparingly, but they wouldn’t be effective unless the reason why they’re used changed, from graphical echo (“I saw a cat today 🐱”) and mood/attitude particles (like you did) to ideographic usage (e.g. “I saw a 🐱 today”). Plus they’re still colourful and attention-grabbing drawings within text, they detract attention from the text itself.

                  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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                    9 months ago

                    Can’t distractions from the text sometimes be exactly what you want?

                    And have you seen an emoji perfectly complete a meme when being used for mood? How about convey lighthearted intent when discussing a serious subject?

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      9 months ago

      Robots.txt is supposed to help web crawlers to not waste their time, not enforce some kind of social norm.

      The logic was that if it’s actually important, you’ll put it behind a login.