A manifesto for ⁂ as a symbol for the fediversehttps://symbol.fediverse.info/
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@F100 pancakes are lovely so that's a good thing
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Григорий Клюшниковreplied to Fediverse Symbol ⁂ last edited by
Fediverse Symbol ⁂, idk, I'm kinda torn between this and the Meta one.
In my mind, Meta's doesn't mean "centralized", it rather means that the bigger planet is your home server and the other ones orbit it. Mastodon and PeerTube introductory videos also make use of the planet metaphor to explain decentralization. As well as Threads, in the explainer when you turn on fediverse sharing.
But then a cluster of three asterisks, or stars, can also mean a constellation (of servers), so it also works.
The pentagram symbol doesn't work as is. But I'm also sure it can be drawn as pixel art at 16x16 to be legible. Naive downscaling rarely produces good results at these sizes. As an example, here's the Smithereen 16x16 favicon I drew pixel by pixel at that size:
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@grishka @FediverseSymbol I don't particularly hate the Meta symbol other then it feels pretty uncomfortable for them to come in and make up a new symbol with absolutely no conversation with "the community" and then other platforms like Flipboard start using it and it ends up feeling like encroachment. But I can also see how that can just come across as paranoia to some people. The ⁂ symbol does have the cool advantage that the :corporate_fediverse: symbol doesn't have which is Unicode
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Sean Tilleyreplied to Fediverse Symbol ⁂ last edited by
@FediverseSymbol There’s some nice ideas here! I’m still conceptually in love with the pentagram logo, but this is still miles better than the corporate goatse logo.
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:replied to Fediverse Symbol ⁂ last edited by
@FediverseSymbol ⁂ is a good one. ❉ is a nice one too, but it resemble something like ActivityPub rather than the Fediverse itself.
⁂ U+2042: ASTERISM
❉ U+2749: BALLOON-SPOKED ASTERISK -
Andy Piperreplied to CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: last edited by
@catsalad @FediverseSymbol yes, on balance I like the balloon-spoked one more, by preference.
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@FediverseSymbol I feel like the colors in the default logo are important. For me it represent different instances with different purposes. Mastodon isn't just a cluster of servers talking to each other, it's the people using it - which is represented by colors nicely right now.
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@prz In our idea the color adapts to the text color around it, or can be turned into any relevant color fitting the use. However, when making graphics out of it, it’s definitely possible to bring back more colors for esthetics and extra meaning. See this proposal for instance: https://bcn.fedi.cat/objects/4c635366-293d-4a86-9c1c-215c6f2c732f
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Andy Piperreplied to Fediverse Symbol ⁂ last edited by
@FediverseSymbol you could submit it to https://icons.wedistribute.org/ as an alternative to the existing one?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Fediverse Symbol ⁂ last edited by [email protected]
@FediverseSymbol this is unconvincing:
"We also don’t believe that a large corporation that is joining in as late should be the one defining the iconography for the fediverse."
Who are *you*, though? If your argument is ad hominem, show your names and your bona fides. Why should anyone care what you believe?
And if you're proposing a symbol after Threads, isn't that even later?
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@evan @FediverseSymbol they have a credits page, that also links to the original discussion in 2022 https://codeberg.org/fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol/src/branch/pages/README.md#credits
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by [email protected]
@FediverseSymbol you also say this: "@ is the symbol for e-mail. # is the symbol for hashtags. is the symbol for peace. is the symbol for recycling. ⁂ can be the symbol for the fediverse."
These are not the symbols you should compare to. The most recent symbol that makes sense to compare to is the AI twinkles .
How ✨ became the unofficial AI emoji
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The asterism seems really close to it.
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@shadowwwind @FediverseSymbol put it on the page itself. "We" needs to be backed up with names.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@FediverseSymbol another symbol to compare to is the share icon:
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@evan @FediverseSymbol Hello thanks for the feedback!
First of all, we is @liaizon and @raphael and me We put a link to a credit section of our readme, but maybe it’s too discreet indeed.
So we actually started this in 2022 but we haven’t been very studious with it Earlier this week we finally decided to publish our draft just so at least the idea is out there.
(reply about Threads in next post)
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@FediverseSymbol a couple more:
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@FediverseSymbol I think it would be a good idea to show some recommended uses of the icon. How would you show that I can Fediverse-like an image on a Web page? How to show that I can join a group? Follow an author? In a list of links to my various profiles, which ones are Fediverse enabled?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@FediverseSymbol finally, I understand the motivation of wanting to show the topology of the Fediverse - a network with nodes and edges.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@FediverseSymbol but what if instead of trying to make a teeny weeny abstract diagram of the Fediverse, the focus were more personal -- about making a connection between two people, no matter where they are and what social networking service they use?
"Follow me on any network."
"Follow me wherever you get your socials."
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
(www.anildash.com)