It looks like a bunch of snowflakes, making it very representative.
EDIT Why change something that isn't broken?
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Damn, I wanted to make exactly the same joke.
Testing a little side by side comparison
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At least on my screen and font size, the three asterisks are way too small to be recognizeable as a logo.
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.
I like it because we are all snowflakes together
Interesting, I'm currently reading about Plurality (digital democracy), which decided to pick its own symbol (⿻) too.
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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No this looks very primitive. It's not the 1970s. Add a circle and some colors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Three dots like this is also an ACAB symbol.
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?