Not understanding tone’s in text

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I find it difficult a lot especially with things like social media where I don’t understand what tone someone is talking.

Someone may be messaging me giving an opinion and I don’t know whether they are nicely explaining, being argumentative or even being nasty.

Wish at those times I can understand what sort of tone they are speaking in. It has called endless meltdowns and burnouts etc.

I usually can't determine what tone of voice a person is using in texts unless I know them really well. It's frustrating when you can't figure out if a person is answering in a nice way or a mean way.

NTs can't always tell if someone texting is joking or being serious, either. That's why they created "smileys"

But it's not always easy to tell what emotion smileys or emojis are supposed to be, either. For example there's an emoji that I thought was showing severe anger because it looks like it's blowing smoke out of its nostrils, but when I moved my arrow over it it said the emotion was "triumph".

I used this topic as a way to explain some of my social interaction problems the other day. The person I explained this to is NT and they know about me being Autistic. I tried to explain that in a normal conversation with people I feel the same way as they do reading a text. It’s hard for me to know what is really going on in a conversation. Does this make sense to anyone here?