@pratik @manton @jsonbecker @jarrod That’s kind of where I ended up. I think the the friction in typing the emoji is helpful, for me. I’ve had a little personal emoji button on my personal dev branch for a bit now and I’ve hesitated using it. I didn’t want to appear rude on the timeline and the people I wanted to “react” to, I did in fact want to put more time into the reply… But I also get overwhelmed and only reply to a fraction I was intending to… so :🤷:

Now I’m thinking of changing it up, so that it opens the reply area with an emoji inserted in the textarea with that nice blinking cursor tempting me to write something in addition.

Another avenue I pondered was sending some indieweb like’s. But I don’t think webmentions are processed in replies. Could be an interesting take on “private” likes if it did, since we can view webmentions to our blogs….