A client treating every reaction, or all non minus reactions as a like is doing a disservice to their users.
IMHO NIP-25 is wrong in the assessment of what is a like and dislike and contributes to the sentiment that drove the anti-reaction (dubbed only zaps) mode in damus. Its literally all characters and shortcode emojis other than the minus symbol as an upvote, diluting the usage of emojis when clients adhere to that.
Emojis are up to interpretation by the viewer and may not always be interpreted to mean what the originating poster intended. This is just the nature of symbols, culture and context.
If you want to tally or have a view of liked content based on reactions, then Id recommend sticking to one character to convey that (content = +). Otherwise the reactions are simply expressions.
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I forgot to convey my thoughts on Amethyst here..
I think the reaction, in addition to 1984, is unnecessary. The fact that its happening without the user being informed is an unexpected result.
If users wanted to leave a reaction they could do that before the 1984 report. Or the dialog/panel that the user goes through could offer that as a choice.
> Emojis are up to interpretation by the viewer and may not always be interpreted to mean what the originating poster intended. This is just the nature of symbols, culture and context.
Exactly. See the 🤌 case.
Agreed on all points, with the qualification that there are probably some emojis you can safely map to + (❤️ and 👍) come to mind. But I could probably be convinced otherwise.