Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoMy 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
Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoMy 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
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
eg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
“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.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.