Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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  • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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    5611 months ago

    Are emojis considered emoticons? Call me old but I think this is an emoticon ;-) and this is an emoji 😉

    • @ambiance@beehaw.org
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      711 months ago

      Agreed! Although the little image things on message boards like phpBB, ProBoards and Invision were also emoticons, even though they were basically early onset emojis