I think one of the biggest reasons for the switch from emoticons to emoji can be seen in this thread, emojis are pretty much universally supported whereas a lot of emoticons break Markdown (specifically anything with a backslash or a less-than sign)
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You just reminded me of this awesome bot on Reddit called "please respect tables".
There is still a subreddit about this, though it's been abandoned
It would be fun to have it here too! π
How much of the current lemmy base are ex-reddit? I remember emoticons being heavily frowned upon there. It may be a cultural hangover from the rexodus peeps.
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In chats I use emojis very often, but I here I feel like some emojis may not show properly, so I avoid them. Though here I tend to use smiles and such :)