My experience is reactions are important for real time conversations with too many people at once. It allows one person to speak and several people to agree without adding another line of text and clogging up the discussion.
There is another use case of “supportive” emojis where I would react hug to “I’ve had a rough day” from a friend of mine.
There’s all the humour uses of emoji too but that’s not what we want on lw.
My experience is reactions are important for real time conversations with too many people at once. It allows one person to speak and several people to agree without adding another line of text and clogging up the discussion.
There is another use case of “supportive” emojis where I would react hug to “I’ve had a rough day” from a friend of mine.
There’s all the humour uses of emoji too but that’s not what we want on lw.