No need for a lot of commentary unless you want to explain your choices in a sentence or two. I’ll start:
I change the historic/default like to … we are a technical community that shares lots of ideas and thoughts, so this seemed like a good set with the brought in to show skepticism or curiosity.
At community.snowdrift.coop, we changed historic/default to also, but we also changed its label to “appreciate” instead of “like”. We also made:
To change labels we uploaded new images even when they were copies of existing emoji.
but called it “totally”
but called it “tldr”
but called it “skeptical” (I think is similarly good)
but called it “thank you”
called it “sympathies”
called it “changed my mind” (the is not a bad alternate)
called “haha”
called “hooray”
(we used underscores for multi-word labels)
We thought a lot about the optimal most constructive reactions before settling on these with some adaptation over time. We do use multiple at once via Retort, so we aren’t planning to switch to Discourse Reactions since it limits one reaction per user.
Overall, your set @downey is notably similar, only really missing the options for “care” / “sympathies” and some sort of light-hearted funny option.
Does anyone have a “Thank you” reaction emoji — something that doesn’t have the emotional context of a heart. The thumbs up, clapping and party horn have become ambiguous because we also tend to be used to be condescending too. (Sarcasm is alive and thriving in social media.)
I like ‘Thx’ but text ain’t ideal for an international forum.
I’m looking for something that shows appreciation without baggage. So that postings are encouraged, but unlike a reply doesn’t cause extra SPAM-like messages if the Maillist mode is enabled.
A “Me Too” emoji would be similarly useful … but I don’t think that it currently could be separated from that social baggage.
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brought in to show skepticism or curiosity.
also, but we also changed its label to “appreciate” instead of “like”. We also made:
but called it “totally”
but called it “tldr”
but called it “skeptical” (I think 
is similarly good)
but called it “thank you”
called it “sympathies”
called it “changed my mind” (the 
is not a bad alternate)
called “haha”
called “hooray”
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