I think most people who use it are just scared from the uneducated downvotes/ backlash and I think it just ruins the sarcasm.
I started to avoid using it on other social media as it seems kind of dumb.
My opinion for it on Lemmy is mostly the same but it might work better here if Lemmy had a sarcasm tag instead(the same way NSFW tag work)of /s to signal the sarcasm instead.
Are you advocating tags for all inflections of verbal speach or just sarcasm?
The weird thing is, using Emojis is like the perfect way to display subtle and varied verbal inflections in text form… but people here largely refuse to do it because they see it as cringe
What is the “I’m being sarcastic” emoji?
Back in the forum days it was the wink 😉
Personally i just go with whatever conveys that i am not being serious, such as any of these 🙄🤧🙃🤔😏.
Though i suppose i should say i am not 12 and have no idea what the cool kids use, probably 💀 or so
I personally like using 😤 for “confidentally stupid” sarcasm and 😬 for “yikes” sarcasm.
There’s also the classic eyeroll 🙄 but that one’s usually a bit too aggressive for me.
Oh and 🫠 and 🙃 can work well too!
🙃
Emoticons are inherently superior! :{)
ooh he’s got a lil mustache! That’s my favorite emotion!
:{)>
Goatee man!
Kaomoji is superiorer ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
The tag solution in my opinion would be better than the “/s”, you could hide sarcasm+ it would be just visually marked.