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breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• simple@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having a unicode icon that can be copy pasted anywhere is nifty, but yeah I’m really not a fan of choosing this one.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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?

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 obvious advantages if it is that don’t even bear discussion.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If they can’t be articulated, I lose respect for those reasons

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s literally a character, like aitch.

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  • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you one of the three proposers mentioned in the git repository?

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No I’m just so very bored and this is the classic bikeshed issue so I figure I won’t cause any problems here.

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