@FediverseSymbol

Hi there! Very nice page to promote this symbol! To me, that would be a very good candidate to substitute the pentagon / pentacle. I totally agree that, being a character, it is more easily introduced in various texts and posts. However, typing it might be difficult in many platforms or OS's, so there might not be so much gain in this sense (there's always the copy-paste option, sure). It would be great that it could be used as a hashtag, but last time I checked, I couldn't (maybe it depends on my node's software?). Checking again... #⁂

Colored and/or rotated versions could be used where such content is possible, but the good thing is that it's such a specific character, that it is easily recognizable both rotated and not, and both with 5 or 6 pointed asterisks.

Now the funny thing is that there is no centralized body to which propose an official symbol or logo (and I love that it is this way). So... how to promote a change? That's probably a social challenge!

I'll add some more tags to the thread, just in case:

#FediverseIcon #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo #FediIcon #FediLogo #FediSymbol #Fediverse

@marcelcosta @tirifto @drq @nestort @paukokura

@eudaimon @marcelcosta @tirifto @drq @nestort @paukokura Hi! Just stumbled upon your post while looking at the #FediverseIcon tag! We actually just published a page about using ⁂ as a symbol for the fediverse, we got the same idea! Great to see your take on it, nice with the colours and the rotation!

Oops, I forgot to add a few tags to the previous post: #FediLogo #FediDesign #FediverseIcon #FediArt

(I've also edited it!)

@tirifto @drq @nestort
Good morning (or TZAG) everyone!
As I said earlier, here's some more info (some of it may have been already posted in current or nearby threads):

Here's a bit of history on the unofficial-and-quite-adopted logo for the #Fediverse, plus some other ideas: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fediverse-logo-or-icon-proposal/1057, also contributed by @dsfgs.

To add a bit of more data to the history: the rotation of the pentacle has three objectives: firstly, so that it does not look neither like an upright pentacle, nor an inverted one, both of which are symbols of actual use. The other main objective was to make it square in proportions, so that if it is used in a place where it is displayed as a circle (such as many apps do in avatars: the original image is square, but it's displayed as a circle), it still appears centered and fully visible. Finally, being a bit rotated adds dynamism.

Here's a discussion (in Catalan, hopefully you can machine-translate it) where @titi, @marcelcosta and I discussed a new idea for a logo: the U+2042 ASTERISM character: ⁂ https://agora.fedi.cat/t/targeta-fediversal-amb-nou-logo/738 (plus a conversation in https://bcn.fedi.cat/notice/AbIbB3mNisOH7f3cIq with @paukokura too).

For the record, I also attach the Asterism idea. For my taste, it works better than the original pentacle, especially in small sizes (although it's still a bit cluttered, but I'd say it's clearly recognizable), and it adds the advantage of being an actual character (depending on the font, it may be implemented with 5 or 6 pointed asterisks, but I don't think that's a problem). The problem is that it is not a clear evolution of the first one, so an hypothetical process of adoption would probably generate confusion for some time. But the #Fediverse is confusing, also! Because... what is the Fediverse? In https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/fediversity/10 there are some discussions, and I also remember there being one somewhere (not sure if in this forum) about how to best communicate the idea of the Fediverse (including maybe a motto), to help improve the adoption.

Anyway, for me it is funny (and a bit flattering too) to see the original logo appearing here and there. It is also interesting to observe how this all happens without any verticality or hierarchy being applied (formally, at least). The logo, by the way, disappeared at some point in Wikipedia's English version of the Fediverse article, but it stays in some others (such as the Spanish version).

#FediLogo #FediDesign #FediverseIcon #FediArt