• CannotSleep420
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      Type “:” and the first few letters and you should see a selection pop up. You can also find it in the “*” category in the emoji picker located above post/comment text areas.

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          Emojis on lemmy are just markdown links to images, you can use them by typing ![]( <image file> "emoji <name of the emoji>") copy-pasting an image in the text editor should automatically generate the link, you would just have to add what is between quotation marks.

          Exemple:

          ![joever](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/8523e574-047f-4619-a240-a147b1d1e81d.png "emoji joever")

          =

          joever

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            At that point, what’s the difference between posting an emoji and a picture?

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              Emojis remove the need to upload multiple images to the server, save you a trip to your image folder, and can easily be used inline as if they are part of a sentence. They also give instances their own flavor.

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              The way it’s used, the way it’s displayed. If you take that all the way all emojis everywhere are pictures. It’s a sociological difference I think.