Gregory's Serverwhats the best unicode character to represent the fediverse? we need a symbol that is already encoded!
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 @liaizon I would advocate for: so far the suggestions (ignoring the joke suggestions) are: @Moon: ꙮ @liaizon @Moon @haverholm The choice -if choice there is- must be done with care, semantics of each character have to be studied to avoid reappropriation or original meanings we want to avoid. Btw the history behind ꙮ is so fun… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O thinking about iconography, I love are.na's logo and and it would be sorta funny to use ⁂ cause it's about the same with an extra * added in my screenshot is element's logo that feels a but bland to me but does express some type of interaction of discrete servers @liaizon Yes… I am trying to remember such a logo I know with 3 stars forming one box. Can’t put the finger on it yet… @neauoire as someone who has a really wonderful sense of design and aesthetic sensibility and also thinks about things in a longer term thinking kinda way, do you have any ideas about how to help guild a framework that could help convey a sense of cohesiveness when designing for the fediverse?  @liaizon well, iconography is a good start, for example, there's no social icon that represents the fediverse, some people put the mastodon logo which is very bizarre to me, but if you liked, maybe the best thing we can do is start using the 3 stars(⁂) as a profile website icon. If @raphael makes me a cleaned up svg of it, I'll put it up on my wiki, and I'm certain I can inspire a handful others to do the same. Moving away from a software icon to a platform icon would be a good first step. @neauoire @liaizon @nclm Plain SVG of the last version of a possible static ⁂ symbol https://cl.raphaelbastide.com/index.php/s/Nz3Wjac9P5poFzZ Hey @neauoire only took us 20 months but @raphael, @nclm and myself finally launched https://symbol.fediverse.info and set up the @FediverseSymbol account for it. Would love it if you were still interested in being involved or even just using it! a list of suggested unicode symbols to represent the fediverse:    @liaizon @haverholm @raphael @maikek @mariusor @singitout @lukasfx @humanetech @wago 𔗢 Late find: this amazing sign from the anatolian hieroglyph chart that fits perfectly, but probably it doesn't render on so many OS's? Debian does it. Are you referring to this AddOn? @liaizon @haverholm @raphael  @liaizon  @liaizon Hexagram 37 ("Dwelling People") of the I Ching: ䷤ |
@liaizon There isn't even an agreed, collective symbol for the fediverse.
This proposal is most generally used https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal.svg but because the fediverse has no governing body, or a way to reach more than an informal consensus, that's the closest thing.
Anarchist movements have less trouble finding a common symbol than the fediverse! 😆