I was pondering a lot to how better represent those profiles in contact section of the video. While Mastodon icon isn't half bad and more readily recognizable as "all things fediverse and decentralization", in the end of the day, a broad icon for fediverse will sit well with anyone who knows to use anything else. Reasons being: I dunno, associate oneself less with Mastodon? It's not unthinkable in the age when most fediverse software has outgrown its direction.

Also, my regards to @drq for contributing to the pentagram icon that we know today! However, I really would appreciate it if ⁂ was given the benefit of the doubt in many places, due to relative simplicity and integration within Unicode of the latter. At least, it warrants a fast insertion of the fediverse image without the use of additional graphics: just trust your font to render asterism the best, no fuss!

@liaizon @FediverseSymbol

@liaizon@social.wake.st @FediverseSymbol@typo.social @dansup@pixelfed.social

Not the worst logo I've seen, though I have to say I'm against using existing single characters to define something. You can't copyright it, you can't trademark it, you can't restrict its use, and it can only lead to confusion when anyone else quite legitimately uses it for their own thing.

And then, what are we going to do about the fediverse name? It's awful. The whole nomenclature, from instance to ... everything, is techy and a barrier for mass adoption.