We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
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⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.
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@ is the symbol for e-mail. # is the symbol for hashtags. ☮ is the symbol for peace. ♻ is the symbol for recycling. ⁂ can be the symbol for the fediverse. ⁂ is standardised as Unicode U+2042, making it ready to copy and insert anywhere.
Git Repository: fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol
How about, the same idea, but you use railroad couplers instead of buttholes? Everybody is connected! Rather than being full of shit.
Stealing an icon already designated for something else? As is tradition
Having a unicode icon that can be copy pasted anywhere is nifty, but yeah I’m really not a fan of choosing this one.
Why do we need to have a unicode character that refers to the fediverse?
Are we trying to replace our alphabetical language with a language of ideograms?
Can you answer, “Why do we need a symbol that represents the Fediverse?” Because modulo that, your question becomes, “Why does the symbol that represents the Fediverse have to have a Unicode codepoint?”
We don’t need it to be a Unicode character, but there are advantages if it is that are so obvious they don’t even bear discussion.
If they can’t be articulated, I lose respect for those reasons
That’s nonsense.
If you know what those reasons are, then whether or not they have been articulated should not influence how you feel about those reasons. To think I could control your mind by not saying things. Just think of all the things I am not saying right now. You’ll go mad.
If you DON’T know what those reasons are, then you are simply not able to respect them less than you do now.
It’s literally a character, like aitch.
⁂
I’m pretty sure we’re cool to use it. The advantage of using a glyph that already exists in Unicode is huge.
Are you one of the three proposers mentioned in the git repository?
No I’m just so very bored and this is the classic bikeshed issue so I figure I won’t cause any problems here.
Blech
Isn’t there one already widely adopted? The rainbow mesh pentagon? Why rebranding?
is said in webpage: the pentagram symbol is hard to distinguish at smaller typographicl sizes
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
I recommend the asterism to instead be adopted as the symbol for astigmatism.
I like it! 😁
Don’t typograh so small
1 thats not how typography works
2 im not webpage authour what u wan me to do about it moew?
Not so widely adopted if most results don’t include it.
my friend, please read the article. it does a great job of explaining the why. it only takes a minute to read.
So they touch upon it on their site:
The pentagram icon is the original symbol for the fediverse, created back in 2018 by Dr. Quadragon and Eukombos. It’s a great depiction of the decentralised nature of the fediverse, and has been serving the community well. 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.
I think they have a valid point. Currently on my website I use a Mastodon logo next to email and git and all that jazz. It’s not ideal, as it’s not so important that I’m on Mastodon specifically (and I might move to a self-hosted #Seppo instance in the future), but the existing fediverse icon would not work well at that scale.
It’s a huge branding effort to make it catch on though. And part of me likes the pentagram better.
My guess is because it’s unicode. But that doesn’t really matter. How often are you going to want to put the icon instead of just typing the fediverse
eg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome
“Fedi”
Already more than 50% shorter.
In comparison, asterism symbol (and any proposal that further extends into Unicode’s emoji area) still spends three, maybe four bytes.
I… umm… yes, I will grant that in UTF-8 and perhaps UTF-16, it encodes to fewer bytes. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point.
What a bunch of snowflakes. I like the idea. This was my first thought though
Yeah, mine too.
Which I’m fine with. If the metaphor is that the Fediverse is a fucking blizzard of snowflakes organizing against corporate social media, I’m all in for it. If it serves to alienate right wing weirdos then all the better. In the end it’s all about freezing out the fascists.
I thought it was three puckered buttholes.
(⊙_☉)
Diaspora already use the symbol, to some extent. https://diasporafoundation.org/
I had to tell him, he couldn’t see it
Can we use dog buttholes instead of cat buttholes
no, this is lemmy.
Lemmings butthole then?
No, Lemmy Kilmister, buttholes of course!
Oh lord
Lemmy is god.
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’s not being used by another group to represent themselves. It’s a technical symbol like degrees or pi. This idea is similar to how the semicolon is being re-used as a symbol for a group of people. Nothing is being stolen from anyone.
I didn’t say that it was being used to represent anyone, or that it was being stolen, I said that it was already in use. To use your examples, I’d think that using Pi or the degree symbol to represent the fediverse would be a bad idea too, as they could also lead to confusion. The semicolon is punctuation, so there’s less chance of confusion with that.
If an astronomy group made a poster with the three stars, would the stars be representing star clusters, or advertising that they’re on the fediverse? Given that the fediverse is still relatively small, is there more chance of the stars being seen as an astronomical symbol?
Oh my god, you’re right. How could I have failed to see the risk. They must be stopped at all costs.
- ⛤
- ⛥
- ⛦
- ⛧
- ⬠
- ⭔
Edit: Or this lookalike 🝆
Holy shit we are bloods
Aren’t we all crips?
Not with that list we’re not
What I’m hearing here is
Proposal to add current Fediverse symbol to Unicode
closest current one I can find is
⛥
or
⬠
Both one off from the superior hexagon. The bestagon.
I kind of like the idea of just using pentagram. ⛥
Close enough to the current logo in appearance, scales well, not used by other social media, satanic undertones.
I don’t think the satanic undertones are a good thing 🤣
Booo!!! Satan hater!! Hey everyone, this guy hates Satan!!!
Why wouldn’t I hate Satan? Man’s literally responsible for everything wrong with our society 🤣
Hate speech. Reported. Not cool.
Touch grass.
…you think Satan is a literal man and “responsible for everything wrong with our society”? 🤯 Allow me to ruin Santa Claus for you next.
I didn’t say he is literally a man 🤣 It’s an expression. He’s an archangel specifically.
Just can’t get away from that Yahwist propaganda.
Emojis used zero width joiner to combine multiple single code point emoji to a single combined emoji.
⛥+ZWJ+⬠could form the combined character, and be rendered as desired.Which would hopefully give something like this
pretty sure this guy is trying to trick someone else into summoning a demon. It’s like telling people to hit alt-f4 to chat.
I do hear noises in my head now.
Wololo wololo
aeooooooooooo~
It’s more like iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie
U+26E5 RIGHT-HANDED INTERLACED PENTAGRAM and U+2B20 WHITE PENTAGON, for those curious
this guy RCFs
⁂
So we’re Bloods now?
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.I think it’s too complex to be a Unicode character
Looking at how current emojis tend to be hard to distinguish without increasing the font size (I see ~13 px on this page), I’d say the fediverse icon fits the criterion well enough.
Also,
I can see the icon in here well enoughMost Egyptian hieroglyphics are in unicode. However, there are many other reasons for it not to be included.
And an emoji for moths too
I’m still fighting for a poutine emoji 💪
🍟?
🍟+ 🧀 + no sauce 😭
🍟+ 🧀 + 🥃 maybe? I guess it’s supposed to be a whiskey tumbler, but it looks close enough in color…
I wish there was a simple glass full of water emoji. Also a hugging one with a concerned face.
Also a shovel. How can I visually indicate that I’m shoveling snow in winter smh
Then, also an emoji for showel+winter?
And one for showel+skull telling you are one of:- Digging up for the grave of sbd
- Digging up a grave of sbd
Not out yet https://emojipedia.org/shovel
but that’s a disgusting logo
I don’t think it works well typographically but I’d like to see a mockup
I think it would work fine as an emoji though.
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?
