I disagree with changing the logo to that unicode character.
I also think its a huge reach to say its “a white pentagram”.
A **penta**gram has five points.
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@[email protected] 🤨the pentagram ISNT white. That's my point.
The asterism are white stars that aren't connected.
You made my point by missing it.😂
It appears I did absolutely misunderstand you!
@[email protected] ugh, can we not change it….or if they insist....can we find something better than a swirl of astericks that just looks bland?
@[email protected] I'm not changing it and muting people that add it to their usernames.
I don't want people to get the wrong idea about Fedi.
It's obviously not all white and disconnected....😒
I wouldn't use three interconneces buttholes as a symbol for anything...
The asterism makes me think of "three cat butthole moon" everytime I see it, so yeah, perfect logo I guess.
Ok does everyone else go around actually seeing asterisks as buttholes like wtf am I the only normal one here
You just don't spend enough time looking at buttholes.
Asterisks as buttholes has been a common shorthand for eg.: kids-targeted animation that shows animals (such as cats as pets) for nearly four decades already.
Yeah, but I don't immediately think of that when I see an asterisk.
The logo is good I think, but the fediverse needs to rebrand because "Fedi" sounds too much like fetish.
@[email protected] 🤦♂️no...just no...
People have a natural attraction to interesting and new words. Fediverse is a portmanteau of Federated Universe and describes exactly what it is.
"Open social web" is suggested by some, but it's boring and uninteresting. If I heard that term, I'd immediately assume they were talking about corporate social media platforms and never think twice.
Fediverse is a fine name and :fediverse: is a fantastic logo. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
@[email protected] @[email protected] depends on your definition of broken, and to me they absolutely are.
First, for the name, it always felt a bit cringy to me and always prefer to talk about the activity pub over the fediverse. This thread explained why it felt so bad. https://degrowth.social/@yala/113016284424703730
Second, I think the explanation on the asterism proposal site is more than enough, but here goes some extra points I've read this days:
- It can be indexed
- It can be shown in a console and virtually any device
- Can also fit any size for print
- Shit's more accessible and hence more inclusive than any colors can represent. Period.
- Can be modified by your font, for better or worse. You can even color it or put the old logo in it's place, so every time someone puts a ⁂ you see a :fedi:
- Networks aren't supposed to be the same, sticked to each other, just connected.
- It can live along the pentagram. It's a symbol, not a logo.
- It can't be trademarked, which is good for us.
I can think of a lot of better names than fediverse:
Pubverse Subverse Freeverse Openverse Libreverse DCU (Decentralized Universe)
Subverse is a very cool name, but none of those are both accurate and sound good like Fediverse does.
The problem is that there's no "i" in "federated."
I propose that we all start calling it the Feddaverse
@[email protected] @[email protected] Well...not sure if you jest or not, but the I comes from Universe. 😅
There's also a "diverse" in there.
But that just makes me think of cheese!
I suggest:
⛤ Pentagram U+26E4
Or even cooler:
⛥ Right-Handed Interlaced Pentagram U+26E5
Which is less readable but more representative and unique