What do you think about emoji reactions on social media? I know some Fediverse clients support them. Mastodon has emoji reactions in announcements, which makes me wonder - would it really be a bad thing to have them in statuses as well? 🤔
A closed ticket on the topic, as not planned: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23035
A closed PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/13275
@rolle I've thought about that, but I feel like it would be toxic on a microblogging platform. On a forum-like platform (like Reddit, I guess) I think it would be beneficial.
Given how contentious a lot of posts on microblogging platforms can be compared to the more analytical nature of forums (IMO), if emoji reactions were a thing, I suspect you'd get a lot of annoying, low-effort 🤡 and 🤣 and 👎 etc. reactions.
