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As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When a quarter of the replies on Reddit have become "this" or "๐Ÿ’ฏ" or "^^," which it feels like it became when I left, I'd agree with you.

[โ€“] Busy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when you'd get ripped apart and down voted to hell for daring to use an emoji on Reddit when commenting. People hated it. Then one day it was fine to do it, no one cared anymore. I guess that's around when Reddit became mainstream, maybe.

[โ€“] beefbaby182@mastodon.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Busy @FlyingSquid

Probably cause more and more users gravitated to mobile where it became commonplace to include emojis in posts. I remember too when using emojis was a mortal sin. At most you could use an emoticon but that was it.

[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Back when I started using Reddit it was frowned upon to post OC. I remember some subs had rules that you would be banned if you more than like 10% of your posts were OC.

[โ€“] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago