• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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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.

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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

                    They can but most of the time they aren’t. That’s the key here: most of the time emojis only add noise, to the point that the shreds of legitimate usage (that can be conveyed through other means) don’t really justify keeping the cons of the noise.

                    It isn’t like anyone would implement my idea though. I’m mostly doing like that old man screaming at the sky, or something like this.