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.
Quelqu’un a-t-il un emoji de réaction « Merci » — quelque chose qui n’a pas le contexte émotionnel d’un cœur. Le pouce levé, les applaudissements et la corne de fête sont devenus ambigus car nous avons aussi tendance à les utiliser pour être condescendants. (Le sarcasme est bien vivant sur les réseaux sociaux.)
J’aime bien « Merci », mais le texte n’est pas idéal pour un forum international.
Je cherche quelque chose qui montre de l’appréciation sans bagage. Ainsi, les publications sont encouragées, mais contrairement à une réponse, cela ne provoque pas de messages supplémentaires de type SPAM si le mode Maillist est activé.
Un emoji « Moi aussi » serait également utile… mais je ne pense pas qu’il puisse actuellement être séparé de ce bagage social.
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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”
(the newest Google