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thayer Jul 7, 2023

Experimenting with unified instance themes

Experimenting with unified instance themes - Lemmy.world

Thought I’d share some ideas I’ve been floating, to implement a unified branding across all instances. Instances could opt-in for a unified identity with the platform, using an official trademark and their instance address embedded below it. Instances that use “lemmy” in their second-level domain name would simple append their .tld (such as .world), or use .sld.tld when “lemmy” is accessible from a subdomain (such as .dbzer0.com). Seemingly unrelated domain names, such as beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org], would just omit the leading dot. The navbar background itself could be further customized by the local instance. I imagine something like a watermark of a globe for lemmy.world, or a watermarked maple leaf for lemmy.ca [http://lemmy.ca], etc. Obviously this is a very rough take on things (including the art style), and I’m just brainstorming ideas at this point. What are your thoughts?

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EccTM Jul 7, 2023

“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

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thayer

“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

I don’t think it does. Decentralized doesn’t mean every instance must appear unique from one another, though they certainly can if that is their wish. There’s no reason why a group of common instances shouldn’t want to provide a unified approach to branding their platform.

You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

Thanks, the theme is just my usual rediggit for lemmy (the dark variant is coming soon). The point of the post was just to highlight the navbar logo concept.

Rediggit for Lemmy by thayer

A flexible full-width theme for **Lemmy v0.18/0.18.1**, inspired by reddit, digg, hacker news, and others.