2024-08-22 13:37 UTC
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@yala@degrowth.social 2024-08-22 13:53
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Nice symbol. Do you also have a proposal to replace the term Fediverse? I know many people, me included, who don't want to or cannot use it as a term in political debates, myself included. Social Web was once one proposal, Open Socials is another. Maybe you've heard of other alternative naming that is more accessible in its name does not put the effort into a niche?
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@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr 2024-08-22 13:57
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Strangely, you apparently don't mention it is an Unicode character, U+2042. https://r12a.github.io/uniview/?char=2042 #โ #asterism
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@xarvos@outerheaven.club 2024-08-22 14:10
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social a bunch of snowflakes? /j
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@ruawhitepaw@chitter.xyz 2024-08-22 14:34
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I like both this and the rainbow pentagram.
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@jackemled@furry.engineer 2024-08-22 14:49
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social There are two pentagrams in Unicode, but they don't really show connectedness like the rainbow fediverse logo or this. Them not being circumscribed like the rainbow logo takes alot out of them. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+26E4 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+26E7
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@LiquidParasyte@pawb.fun 2024-08-22 14:50
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social hmm.
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@shadow06@mastodon.social 2024-08-22 15:23
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social You mean activitypub?
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@mgiven@mastodon.radio 2024-08-22 16:02
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Looks like the symbol for radiation.
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@iorsh@kishkush.net 2024-08-22 16:39
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Tetragrammaton ๐ https://r12a.github.io/uniview/?char=05EF
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@mothwaves@void.lgbt 2024-08-22 16:41
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I think as a symbol for the fediverse, the asterism is a little too minimalist. It's clearly meant more for places where images are impractical or impossible to use since it is way too bland and non-descriptive as a large symbol. I like the astronomical connection with the meaning but it's still a bit of a reach. I just don't see it being as useful as a custom-made icon.
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@FinchHaven@infosec.exchange 2024-08-22 16:46
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social "Joined Mar 27, 2024" uhh... Snowflakes, huh? Some sort of political commentary, or nah? Y'all are a little late to the party So we'll redo everything because ya'll just showed up with your "Manifesto"? Nope Nope nope nope nope #Fediverse
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@Radgryd@mstdn.games 2024-08-22 16:47
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Hmm. Feels way too generic to me. Looks like 3 snowflakes.
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@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2024-08-22 17:29
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social looks like the symbol for snow they use in weather forecast. Or the symbol for 3rd level of cold used on a fridge. I think trying to make that a symbol for fediverse is kinda like appropriating a common noun. Confusing at best, malicious at worst.
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@eudaimon@fe.disroot.org 2024-08-22 17:43
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Just for completeness, I'll put the link to my post where I proposed a version of this asterism as a possible new logo / icon / symbol for the #Fediverse: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/Ag8qfjARJGHwZMK3Ae . The idea of using the asterism came from a discussion somewhere else (all is explained in the linked post). It's great that you've come to the same idea in a parallel path! ๐
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@SocksPls@mastodon.xyz 2024-08-22 17:47
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social doesnt scale down well tbf
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@brawaru@mstdn.social 2024-08-22 17:57
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social ehhh nah, not a fan
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@sfrazer434@mastodon.social 2024-08-22 18:17
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social honestly, reminds me too much of the Greendale Community College flag from the TV Show Community.
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@piuvas@capivarinha.club 2024-08-22 18:24
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social lol
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@Codhisattva@mastodon.social 2024-08-22 18:43
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social @dansup@mastodon.social I love it!
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@geeksam@ruby.social 2024-08-22 19:07
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social @getalifemike@urbanists.social my immediate thought was "a dinkus?" I had to look it up to see that they were distinct (but related) ๐
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@fiqus@mastodon.social 2024-08-22 19:25
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social why not optimise the pentagom as a meaningfully named emoji design and submit it to the Unicode Consortium folks? It's worthy of a design project. https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html It's big enough to be taken seriously and would result in improved accessibility etc.
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@vgarzareyna@mstdn.mx 2024-08-22 20:37
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I like it. this is the first time I'm seeing this but it's cool. I'm in!
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@eatallyourdarlings@mastodon.gamedev.place 2024-08-22 22:18
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social This is delightful! The asterism has been part of my personal mythos-symbology (is there a word for that?) for a while, with similar themes. This is a good motivator to write a blog post about that :)
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@luiiuuuiiiii@mathstodon.xyz 2024-08-22 23:09
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I really like it! It actually looks a bit like the Chinese character ๆฃฎ, meaning forest. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE
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@slim@mastodon.tn 2024-08-22 23:25
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social it's cold, sharp and inorganic. it has even a cube at it's center. the pentagram suffers from the same defect (but is slightly better because of the rainbow). that's why I prefer meta's symbol which does not represent a centralized network, but it represents one node and one connection. and thus represents the point of view of the user, not the system
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@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org 2024-08-23 00:07
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Thereโs some nice ideas here! Iโm still conceptually in love with the pentagram logo, but this is still miles better than the corporate goatse logo.
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@billothekid2@mindly.social 2024-08-23 01:48
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Is there some kind of problem with the current symbol?
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange 2024-08-23 03:53
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social โ is a good one. โ is a nice one too, but it kind of resembles ActivityPub more than the Fediverse itself. โ U+2042: ASTERISM โ U+2749: BALLOON-SPOKED ASTERISK
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@slim@mastodon.tn 2024-08-23 05:49
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social also "asterism" sounds like an ideology invented by elon musk
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@kapunta@merveilles.town 2024-08-23 08:14
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social kulupu
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@nnuman@social.linux.pizza 2024-08-23 10:35
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I think it can be an addition instead of a replacement and use the both, one for icon and the other one for text, maybe could be a website like โ.com or โ.yourwebsite.com you can easily search for it on the web browser with ctrl^f and that is really cool.
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social 2024-08-23 11:09
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I generally like the idea for a unicode symbol for the Fediverse, though I'd not replace the pentagram with it, but use both, depending on the use case. What I definitely don't like is this top down approach. "Hey, here is a new symbol for the Fediverse. Spread it!". Shouldn't this be a democratic process?
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@a9@techhub.social 2024-08-23 11:52
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social You chose the Starfish Triforce?
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@prz@hachyderm.io 2024-08-23 14:17
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I feel like the colors in the default logo are important. For me it represent different instances with different purposes. Mastodon isn't just a cluster of servers talking to each other, it's the people using it - which is represented by colors nicely right now.
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@butterdog@poa.st 2024-08-23 17:28
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social three buttholes
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@sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca 2024-08-23 21:36
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social I like it, nice work friends! ๐
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@north@xn--8r9a.com 2024-08-23 21:38
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social It can't properly be used in a subdomain. You can't, for example, have โ.mstdn.social. There are many characters that would allow that, but this isn't one.
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@tadano@mt.watamelon.win 2024-08-23 23:17
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Well if Twitter can make its logo a Unicode character why can't fedi?
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@havoc@mastodon.sdf.org 2024-08-24 02:18
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social This symbol is not very good in every dimension.
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@CassandraVert@indieweb.social 2024-08-24 04:06
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social Snowflakes?