@jesu i like it when i see folks designing a new  fedi emoji becuase the existing one is soooo bad. have you discover the butterfedy variant yet....

i flutter on fediverse   

apparently the above design took ppl, mostly a character called DSFGS, 3 years to produce, it wasn't a full time thing but yeah, 3 years. i like your attempt but it is just too rigid, the colors are nice, when i read the notes from the dsfgs design days people didn't want to use a circle and nodes inside a circle because it implied people shutting themselves out, closing up, no space for anyone else, etc.

they moved on from trying to depict the physical nodes that fedi uses and opted for three overlaying triangles that looked like and origami boat, which they called #fediorigami that eventually lead to this design they just added two eyes and made it so you can draw the origami boat without taking your pen off the page. and voila, a more fluid design. to depict what the fedi permits, and it permits fluttering.

so yeah just a lil bit of  fediverse history.

they also made these peertube emoji at the same time      

As said in the previous post, in 2020 @[email protected] created a thread on Social Hub as a way to invite people to propose new designs for the #fediverse logo

the resulting discussion highlighted some interesting points

The concept of network may be somehow misleading in the current logo, as the Fediverse is more like an archipelago of connections without an actual balance between them: some instances are more connected than others, and a pentagon with all the points connected would be an incorrect description then. A mesh would be more correct than a fully connected shape (quoting @humanetech)
Also the pentagram may be welcomed with mixed feelings by the mainstream audience, as this geometric figure have different meanings in different cultures, in particular Christian culture associate it with negative values.
Personally I agree with @drq who discussed in this thread about the need expression of a concept using visual and design boundaries over the desire to present a concept using literal meanings

It's worth mentioning the different proposal originated in the discussion.

I've found some activity by a user called Dick Smith Fair Go, there is something from this user cached online but their account seems inexistent, it was likely deleted from all the instances they used. What remains online is a quite productive activity of Fediverse logo proposals. A well documented is the FediOrigami proposal

@smallcircles @bob @lsn

We really didn't plan for this to happen today. We must blame (thank) @realcaseyrollins and @dcent 🙃

The bloody thing metamorphosed!

#fediverseIcon #fediOrigami #butterFedy #fediArt #fediDesign #fediverse #fediverseMeta

@eloquence
Speaking of "#fediverseButtons" you may be interested in using the #FediverseIcon we developed over the course of two years with consultation from various Fedizens, who were interested in a better icon.

Find our pinned toot that chronicles the development quite nicely (last we checked), or simply visit the repo:

https://git.disroot.org/fediOrigami/fediOrigami

#fediOrigami