People want to change the Fedi logo :fediverse:, which shows diversity in Fedi with the colors and interconnectivity with the pentagram, to an asterism ⁂, which…is all white and disconnected.
It can be colored using an image, but that’s one of the reasons for wanting the change, so that an image isn’t needed…😳
Furthermore, an asterism is a Unicode character, which is not a good idea to use as a “logo”, as MANY people said when Elon did the same thing…
Let’s not mimic Elon. He’s not exactly a good person to mimic the behavior of…
#Fedi #Fediverse
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.
@[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…
@[email protected] three barely touching buttholes…😂
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@[email protected] Asterism shows a Fedi after Defederation wars… :blobcattilt:
