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  • Another idea would be to just open it up and let people use any emoji to react.

    Please no! XD We already have enough emoji as it is, not to mention they are comboable in non-portable ways or they change meaning according to the provider / renderer (GUN becoming WATER GUN is a good example).

    But I do think there are valid “reaction sets” that could be interpreted with emoji, and pretty much all of them happen to match the examples you have provided:

    Positive reaction / Upvote ; Negative reaction / Downvote.

    Reaction of commiseration / offer of emotional support / “Hug” or w/e.

    Reaction of joining in activity / offer of technical or factual support / “Let’s do this”.

    Fun; Unfun

    Reaction of surprise / “TIL” / “wow”.

    Factually correct ; Factually incorrect.

    Reaction of “same”, “this tbh”, “mood” or other such neologisms

    Ofc I prefer the reactions are biased towards promoting good interaction; I really don’t see much use for reactions like “hostile / rude”, “faggot”, “kys” or stuff like that. Downvote and, depending on the case, Factually Incorrect and Unfun deal with most of that.




  • Other posts have already posted it better than I could, but my tl;dr is: one of the good things about Lemmy compared to the “competition” is that votes are public – or at least the fact that someone voted is.

    I wouldn’t mind restricting access to how a user voted, in particular if in the future something like multi-choice upvotes becomes a thing, or even something I’d love to see as is dual-voting (“I downvoted because I don’t like it but I upvoted it because you are absolutely right about it”, this is absolutely different than not voting at all if the who is voting is being tracked).

    But on a fundamental level, in the least instance admins have to be able to know who votes for our version of the system to even work compared to the competition.