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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a bunch of assholes conected to each other… sounds about right.

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  • solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was gonna say snowflakes, but now I can’t unsee the buttholes.

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    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If Greendale Community College was a University.

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    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      scienceleadership.org/…/the_use_of_illustration_i…

      That’s how I started to see them as anuses.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …and it’s ruined… Thanks internet

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      !]](media3.giphy.com/media/gVoBC0SuaHStq/giphy.gif?ci…)

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a sarcasterisk.

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not an asterism but an assterism (or arseterism).

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  • finickydesert@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean like a human centipede

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, thats Reddit.

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d rather see the current Fediverse logo added to Unicode than reuse an existing symbol. It’s not impossible, considering that the Bitcoin symbol (₿) ended up making it.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think it works well typographically but I’d like to see a mockup

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    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it would work fine as an emoji though.

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  • blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And an emoji for moths too

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m still fighting for a poutine emoji 💪

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but that’s a disgusting logo

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  • clot27@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s too complex t be a Unicode character

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    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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, Image I can see the icon in here well enough

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most Egyptian hieroglyphics are in unicode.

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• FryHyde@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had to tell him, he couldn’t see it

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What I’m hearing here is

  Proposal to add current Fediverse symbol to Unicode

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  • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    closest current one I can find is

    ⛥

    or

    ⬠

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    • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both one off from the superior hexagon. The bestagon.

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    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      U+26E5 RIGHT-HANDED INTERLACED PENTAGRAM and U+2B20 WHITE PENTAGON, for those curious

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this guy RCFs

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• dudenas@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t there one already widely adopted? The rainbow mesh pentagon? Why rebranding?

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  • kittykittycatboys@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    is said in webpage: the pentagram symbol is hard to distinguish at smaller typographicl sizes

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    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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    • variants@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t typograh so small

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  • citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    my friend, please read the article. it does a great job of explaining the why. it only takes a minute to read.

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  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      eg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not so widely adopted if most results don’t include it.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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?

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• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like a bunch of snowflakes, making it very representative.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, I wanted to make exactly the same joke.

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• halm@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 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.

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stealing an icon already designated for something else? As is tradition

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s literally a character, like aitch.

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    • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i like the gay satanism icon

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• elrik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, I won’t happen because you can’t type it on a keyboard.

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I tried it and it fell over ***

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• MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • ⛤
  • ⛥
  • ⛦
  • ⛧
  • ⬠
  • ⭔

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy shit we are bloods

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    • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aren’t we all crips?

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• meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Diaspora already use the symbol, to some extent. diasporafoundation.org

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• sunglocto@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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• AsudoxDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why though? We don’t need a symbol. Is it that hard to type “fediverse”? The fediversw logo is good enough.

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no real dichotomy between the logo we have and the proposed typographical symbol. They have different uses, neither can really replace the other. Keep the established colourful Fediverse logo in visual layouts and when desired use the typographical symbol in text. It is natural that they won’t be exactly the same symbol because they are designed for different needs; one is meant to look pretty and one is meant to read well as text.

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• variants@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we use dog buttholes instead of cat buttholes

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  • citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no, this is lemmy.

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    • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lemmings butthole then?

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• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blech

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• Zahtu@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First thought: e pluribus anus

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  • jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A fellow greendale alum. Streets ahead!

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• RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a bunch of snowflakes. I like the idea. This was my first thought though

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was three puckered buttholes.

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    • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      (⊙_☉)

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• andypiper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wrote about this on my blog. I like the notion and points made here, but I also think we’re not helping by re-inventing things that already exist, so I’m torn on it. I have been happy with the existing one.

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially when U+26E5 ⛥ is right there, and much closer to the current logo. Add lines connecting the outside and you’re basically there. If we made a font that interpreted the sequence U+26E5 ⛥ + ZWJ + U+2B20 ⬠ as the Fediverse logo, and set it as default on Fediverse web platforms, we could go a long way towards getting it adopted.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks, I hate it.

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• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did someone just slap this together by copying and pasting an asterisk three times? I know we’re an open source, nerdy community but could we hire a graphic designer?

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• astro_ray@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do we need to address the typographical issues for the existing symbol? I am not using that symbol every time I talk about fedi. Fedi accounts are identified as @username@instance, so there's no need to use some obscure unicode.

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. And if needs be, get the existing symbol included in Unicode. It might already be in FontAwesome.

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• Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like it because we are all snowflakes together

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m more partial to the pentagram/star ⛤🌟 shape of the current fediverse logo. It would be nice to have a monochrome and emoji form in unicode, just have the pentagram encased in a pentagon.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting, I’m currently reading about Plurality (digital democracy), which decided to pick its own symbol (⿻) too.

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• AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like a bunch of snowflakes. I’d rather not associate with that image.

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