A symbol for the fediverse ⁂

a bunch of assholes conected to each other... sounds about right.

I'd rather see the current logo added to Unicode than reuse an existing symbol. It's not impossible, considering that the Bitcoin symbol (₿) ended up making it.

What I'm hearing here is

Proposal to add current Fediverse symbol to Unicode

Isn't there one already widely adopted? The rainbow mesh pentagon? Why rebranding?

I like it because it reminds me of the Japanese kanji 森 Mori (Forest).

Which is in and of itself brilliant because it’s the kanji 木 Ki (Tree) repeated three times and bunched together.

Am I misunderstanding this - you want to replace a recognised symbol with a symbol that's already being used by another group? That seems counterproductive at best.

I'm also wondering, have you spoken to anyone with poor eyesight? This is my reply to a comment below suggesting that the new symbol would be easier to read:

I'm reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn't already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn't have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A. Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it's not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size

It looks like a bunch of snowflakes, making it very representative.

EDIT Why change something that isn't broken?

Whoever decided that a logo should be standardised as Unicode? That is the worst criterion for picking a symbol that has and will have hundreds of other uses than inline text. If it's so important — work to have the current, pentacle fediverse symbol included in Unicode.

Registering a domain to introduce your dumb idea with a lot of empty bravado leaves you with ... an annual bill and a dumb idea. The pentacle symbol is so much more recognisable.

i like the gay satanism icon

Stealing an icon already designated for something else? As is tradition

Its use looks contrived to me on the linked GitHub page. The comparison with @ and # is flawed because those symbols are part of the resource name, whereas here the symbol is superfluous. It's like adding a 🌐 in front of every web URL.

Diaspora already use the symbol, to some extent. https://diasporafoundation.org/

Nah, It won't happen because you can't type it on a keyboard.

Can we use dog buttholes instead of cat buttholes

This looks like shit, is used for something else already, we already have an icon for the fediverse and this has 0 reason to exist

Why though? We don't need a symbol. Is it that hard to type "fediverse"? The fediverse logo is good enough.

Testing a little side by side comparison

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What a bunch of snowflakes. I like the idea. This was my first thought though

First thought: e pluribus anus

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Did someone just slap this together by copying and pasting an asterisk three times? I know we're an open source, nerdy community but could we hire a graphic designer?

I'm more partial to the pentagram/star ⛤🌟 shape of the current fediverse logo. It would be nice to have a monochrome and emoji form in unicode, just have the pentagram encased in a pentagon.

I wrote about this on my blog. I like the notion and points made here, but I also think we're not helping by re-inventing things that already exist, so I'm torn on it. I have been happy with the existing one.

There is no real dichotomy between the logo we have and the proposed typographical symbol. They have different uses, neither can really replace the other. Keep the established colourful Fediverse logo in visual layouts and when desired use the typographical symbol in text. It is natural that they won't be exactly the same symbol because they are designed for different needs; one is meant to look pretty and one is meant to read well as text.

Do we need to address the typographical issues for the existing symbol? I am not using that symbol every time I talk about fedi. Fedi accounts are identified as @username@instance, so there's no need to use some obscure unicode.

I like it because we are all snowflakes together

Interesting, I'm currently reading about Plurality (digital democracy), which decided to pick its own symbol (⿻) too.

It looks like a bunch of snowflakes. I'd rather not associate with that image.

Three dots like this is also an ACAB symbol.

However, its design is a little too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button.

I wonder what the criteria are. Because ⁂ just looks like three blurry dots to me. It's not making things worse, but I wouldn't say it's making them much better either.

No this looks very primitive. It's not the 1970s. Add a circle and some colors.

How about, the same idea, but you use railroad couplers instead of buttholes? Everybody is connected! Rather than being full of shit.

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Of note: ActivityPub (the protocol) has its own logo, seen in https://activitypub.rocks/ and other places. The protocol and the community are absolutely separate things, so this is really good.

I've never really linked the rainbow star icon, just because I don't really like rainbows (IMO the ace flag is the prettiest but I might be biased). I'm also still not convinced that Meta's icon is even supposed to represent the fediverse, as opposed to just a Threads feature that lets it connect to the fediverse. So overall I'm a fan of this proposal, although it does bug me that it uses 6-pointed stars in the font on the webpage and 5-pointed stars in most other typefaces. The 5-pointed stars create some nice negative space.

@fediverse@lemmy.world

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