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.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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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
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 🤷🏻♂️
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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.
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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
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Gimme an ASCII character for it. We can replace the bitcoin character with it
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As several people have already pointed out on the other thread, we already have a well-established fediverse logo: 
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3 cat buttholes. I love it.
There is a hidden 4th.
You had to say it.
It’s buttholes all the way down
Looks like 5 to me
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.
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
You have rare condition of asterism. You need to check your dinkus.
Dude, it’s less clear than the existing symbol. Stop trying to push this.
I appreciate the argument, but I feel like there's too much of a chance that we can do better with something in unicode. Or, that this isn't really good enough. Three asterisks is just too meh, IMO, to catch on.
⁂ ... to me right now just looks like a splodge on the screen.
Somewhat unfortunately, the pentagram in the older icon probably can't really be used without some cartoon-ification, because reasons.
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Behold, the Trihole
So 3 footnotes? A bunch of snowflakes (which we are not)? Just, NO! Find something unique and original, that's how branding works.
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Hmm
New lems can't asterim?
Wow. I had forgotten all about that! I wonder if I could still triforce...
Let our motto be:
Anus together strong.
Is it like that because we’re a bunch of snowflakes?
My first thought.
It looks like a bunch of snowflakes or a trip of buttholes.
No thanks.
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I think the current logo would work fine as a unicode character. I dislike the three anuses for a logo.
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 :/
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I appreciate the dunk on Threads, I wasn't aware of that icon. How audacious.
No
It looks like the state farm logo to me in small text.
Or we could use a combination of letters, sometimes referred to as a word, to represent it.
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.
An asterism! Very cool and Unicode standard! I’m on board.
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