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.

  • @baduhai
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    209 months ago

    No thanks. Up and downvotes is all Lemmy needs, keep it simple.

    • m-p{3}
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      79 months ago

      I wouldn’t mind seeing tags for posts to categorizes discussions in a community tho,

      • @baduhai
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        49 months ago

        Yeah, but tags are a type of reaction. OP is talking about reactions to posts and comments.

        Tags would be great to have.