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We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The weak argument they make is this doesn't look good at small sizes. Personally I don't think that constitutes a good enough reason to rebrand the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Exactly. A logo isn't meant to work at 11 point size in the middle of inline text. The typographical argument is nonsense, and I think this proposal is really a reaction to the idiotic "Satanic panic" over the rainbow pentacle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is not pentacle, it is 10-colored 5-node complete graph.

For people who didn't study in school entire life is filled with magic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Well played 👏😄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah which if that's the argument we're having... I kinda don't want to give people that dumb any influence. The fediverse symbol is not a pentagram and if the rainbow giving gay people visibility is somehow wrong, then... Fuck me I guess because I'd rather make gay people comfortable than a bunch of folks who've fallen down some manner of christofascist rabbit hole

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I commented on the last post about this, the three stars are difficult to make out on a small screen, they look like a blurry capital A. On top of that, it's apparently used in astronomy to represent clusters of stars, like a constellation.

The whole point of this campaign appears to be to replace a unique symbol with one that's already in use and is hard to read at small sizes 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

On top of that, it's apparently used in astronomy to represent clusters of stars, like a constellation.

Isn't that kind of perfect though