⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.

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@ 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. ⁂ is standardised as Unicode U+2042, making it ready to copy and insert anywhere.

Git Repository: fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

EDIT Why change something that isn't broken?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 9 months ago

Damn, I wanted to make exactly the same joke.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, It won't happen because you can't type it on a keyboard.

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Testing a little side by side comparison

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[–] cron@feddit.org 7 points 9 months ago

At least on my screen and font size, the three asterisks are way too small to be recognizeable as a logo.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And in white, for the dark mode folks:

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But it's hardly a fair comparison, especially because it seems I cannot upload SVG files to Mbin. I also didn't make the lines thinner or any other adjustments that might be a good idea at this scale. Still, might be better than noting.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's just our mascot, the "Lemmdigo".

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[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

I like it because we are all snowflakes together

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] andypiper@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No this looks very primitive. It's not the 1970s. Add a circle and some colors.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 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.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 9 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.

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 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

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Three dots like this is also an ACAB symbol.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 10 points 9 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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