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- artdesign@jlai.lu
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
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a bunch of assholes conected to each other… sounds about right.
I was gonna say snowflakes, but now I can’t unsee the buttholes.
If Greendale Community College was a University.
https://scienceleadership.org/blog/the_use_of_illustration_in_kurt_vonnegut-s-breakfast_of_champions
That’s how I started to see them as anuses.
It’s a sarcasterisk.
Not an asterism but an assterism (or arseterism).
You mean like a human centipede
Nah, thats Reddit.
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 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.
And an emoji for moths too
I’m still fighting for a poutine emoji 💪
🍟?
🍟+ 🧀 + no sauce 😭
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 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.
I had to tell him, he couldn’t see it
What I’m hearing here is
Proposal to add current Fediverse symbol to Unicode
closest current one I can find is
⛥
or
⬠
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.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
Which would hopefully give something like this
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.
U+26E5 RIGHT-HANDED INTERLACED PENTAGRAM and U+2B20 WHITE PENTAGON, for those curious
Both one off from the superior hexagon. The bestagon.
this guy RCFs
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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?
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 friend, please read the article. it does a great job of explaining the why. it only takes a minute to read.
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.
Not so widely adopted if most results don’t include it.
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.
Technically, the words are adopted from Chinese (in this case both Traditional and Simplified are the same and have not diverged yet); but same meaning and reasoning, just different pronunciation.
I know that Kanji was originally derived from Chinese but I don’t know which Chinese characters are the same and which are different without doing research.
It is nice that in this case the symbols are the same all the way across the board. 5/5 design choice on both counts.
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.
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.
Stealing an icon already designated for something else? As is tradition
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.
i like the gay satanism icon
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/
- ⛤
- ⛥
- ⛦
- ⛧
- ⬠
- ⭔
Edit: Or this lookalike 🝆
Nah, It won’t happen because you can’t type it on a keyboard.
Yeah I tried it and it fell over ***
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
