We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.

  • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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    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

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        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

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      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.

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        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.

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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        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