- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
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You have rare condition of asterism. You need to check your dinkus.
Behold, the Trihole
I appreciate the dunk on Threads, I wasn’t aware of that icon. How audacious.
It looks like the state farm logo to me in small text.
The icon created by meta gives me shivers…
I know why you did it so fast and why you choose ⁂, it’s already present and works as expected and probably to overcome meta’s implication into the fediverse…
However, every symbol didn’t exist at first and became popular on it’s own because it defended something people found important and fought for (Like the peace symbol)!
Maybe create our own symbol and let it make enough noise so it becomes it’s own symbol?
Sorry if it isn’t clear what I mean by that :/
I think many people share your sentiment and have argued the same point in other threads
Wait…this symbol already existed? What was it used to represent?
It’s in Unicode, duh… Otherwise, you’d need an image to represent it.
Note that if supported by the font you use, the three symbols will usually be drawn the same way as an asterisk (*) in that font. This means a lot of variation.
Your browser’s rendering: */⁂
Several typefaces’ rendering of Unicode
U+2042 ASTERISM:
I think the diversity is alright! It’s like the Fediverse: instances follow a standard to work with each other but can be heavily customized without breaking integration.
One of them is not like the others.
What the fuck is Lust Text?
Send nudes
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There already is a symbol for the fediverse:
This has existed for years already, is used widely, and IMHO looks way better than this dull attempt. I see no good argument in the campaign website for using this new one instead.
The weak argument they make is this doesn’t look good at small sizes. Personally I don’t think that constitutes a good enough reason to rebrand the fediverse
Exactly. A logo isn’t meant to work at 11 point size in the middle of inline text. The typographical argument is nonsense, and I think this proposal is really a reaction to the idiotic “Satanic panic” over the rainbow pentacle.
It is not pentacle, it is 10-colored 5-node complete graph.
For people who didn’t study in school entire life is filled with magic.
Well played 👏😄
Yeah which if that’s the argument we’re having… I kinda don’t want to give people that dumb any influence. The fediverse symbol is not a pentagram and if the rainbow giving gay people visibility is somehow wrong, then… Fuck me I guess because I’d rather make gay people comfortable than a bunch of folks who’ve fallen down some manner of christofascist rabbit hole
💯
I commented on the last post about this, the three stars are difficult to make out on a small screen, they look like a blurry capital A. On top of that, it’s apparently used in astronomy to represent clusters of stars, like a constellation.
The whole point of this campaign appears to be to replace a unique symbol with one that’s already in use and is hard to read at small sizes 🤷🏻♂️
On top of that, it’s apparently used in astronomy to represent clusters of stars, like a constellation.
Isn’t that kind of perfect though
This logo is really unpopular hence why there is always so much talk of making something cleaner and more professional.
…and this latest proposal certainly isn’t either of those things.
This logo is really unpopular
Source? I’ve only ever seen a handful of strawman arguments that “I’m not offended by the vague resemblance to a pentagram/use of rainbow colours implying LGBTQ+ support, but somebody might be”, but its fairly wide adoption suggests that most people — myself included — actually like it.
This is the first I’m hearing of any issue with it resembling a pentagram, the criticisms I’ve heard involve the design in general not looking professional, not scaling well, and lacking a unique palette.
Gimme an ASCII character for it. We can replace the bitcoin character with it
Yes please!
About the current “pentagram” symbol:
However, its design is a little too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button. It’s also only available in image form, not as a typographical character.
We’ve used it as a tiny icon below posts from other instances and I’ve never found it problematic. I think it’s already too well established to replace just because we can’t type it. Besides, the three stars feel to me not distinct enough. Pushing Unicode Consortium to add it to the standard when the time comes is a batter way.
I do think however that it would be worth coming up with a proper name for the current symbol.
I do think however that it would be worth coming up with a proper name for the current symbol.
The Fedigram maybe?
What else!? 🏅
Instead of changing the symbol, we can ask the unicode committee to put the current fediverse symbol in the unicode.
That’s what I said
I shouldn’t comment just after waking up.
You definitely should! Lmao
Or we could use a combination of letters, sometimes referred to as a word, to represent it.
As several people have already pointed out on the other thread, we already have a well-established fediverse logo:
This logo is really unpopular hence why there is always so much talk of making something cleaner and more professional.
First I’ve heard of it being unpopular, what’s unclean or unprofessional about it?
your mother?
Is it like that because we’re a bunch of snowflakes?
My first thought.
Three disconnected centralized serevrs? Ok.
They have several lines coming out. Those could be connections
Connections to users?
To other servers
So 3 disconnected clusters of servers
The lines in the image are connected, but this is also the dumbest internet argument I’ve had this month, so goodbye.
Wow. Hilarious.
Asterisks aren’t conmected.
I quite like how *some* of the arms of the stars touch but not all. The older pentagram gives the impression that everything can connect to everything which has been hard to live up to.
But the ship has sailed and the pentagram has become well established.
