My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.

I see emojis as text's substitute for body language. Body language is supposed to supplement the spoken word. Emojis should supplement the paragraph.

Trying to communicate with more emojis than text is akin to trying to communicate with more body language than spoken word.

Ever try to say something but forget the word, and you try to convey the meaning with body language instead? Overuse of emojis implies a similar lapse of thought.

I've always found it annoying, can't speak for the rest of the Fediverse.

Excessive emojis make reading difficult. It's just as bad as posts. That. Are. Written. Like. This. My internal voice pauses for ever period, likewise, I have to interpret every inline emoji. It's mentally tiring, and while forums like this aren't formal, when I see abused emoji use, I instinctively write off a comment or post as juvenile and low quality. I'm more inclined to skip reading it entirely because of the extra effort required and my pre judgement of its contents.

Tagging an emoji to the end or light use to help convey emotions is fine and intuitive. I personally like them for quick response and like you, to add a little more context to text where the "voice" may be missed.

Because I'm a millennial semi-luddite who (typically) prefers emoticons.*

*Contrary to popular opinion, emoticons ≠ emoji. :) is an emoticon, while 🙂 is an emoji. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Lol.)

I grew up with emoticons and find the colorful nature of them quite disruptive... but that might just be me *shrug*

it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I'm fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it's like

*During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️‍🗨️ at 💑 *

Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government

Because, emojis, breakup, the, flow, of, a, sentence, like, a, comma. Using too, many, makes, it, sound, like, you, are, straining, to 💩.

Because this isn't a Spot The Dog book, and we don't need little picture of all the nouns.

On their own they're ambiguous and vague; with the matching word they're completely redundant.

What good does it do to say "I had pizza [little picture of pizza] for lunch"?

I'll use the occasional :) or such as befits the tone, but pointless hieroglyphics are pointless and annoying.

I think of them like swear words. Not on-the-internet swearing, but public swearing. To use their full power, words like "fuck" need context and - more importantly - discretion and frugal usage.

Overuse of emojis is even easier and harder to look at. But when used right, they serve a purpose. Otherwise it's "Why the fuck do users fucking dislike the fucking use of emojis on fucking Lemmy?"

It feels immature and cringe but that's probably only 'cause I'm “old”.

You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?

Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.

I like one or two at the end of the sentence to help relay tone. As seen in:

OMG! HE'S DYING! 😂

OMG! HE'S DYING! 😭

Those are useful emojis.