People want to change the Fedi logo :fediverse:, which shows diversity in Fedi with the colors and interconnectivity with the pentagram, to an asterism ⁂, which…is all white and disconnected.
It can be colored using an image, but that’s one of the reasons for wanting the change, so that an image isn’t needed…😳
Furthermore, an asterism is a Unicode character, which is not a good idea to use as a “logo”, as MANY people said when Elon did the same thing…
Let’s not mimic Elon. He’s not exactly a good person to mimic the behavior of…
#Fedi #Fediverse
@[email protected] 🤦♂️no…just no…
People have a natural attraction to interesting and new words. Fediverse is a portmanteau of Federated Universe and describes exactly what it is.
“Open social web” is suggested by some, but it’s boring and uninteresting. If I heard that term, I’d immediately assume they were talking about corporate social media platforms and never think twice.
Fediverse is a fine name and :fediverse: is a fantastic logo. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
@[email protected] @[email protected] depends on your definition of broken, and to me they absolutely are.
First, for the name, it always felt a bit cringy to me and always prefer to talk about the activity pub over the fediverse. This thread explained why it felt so bad. https://degrowth.social/@yala/113016284424703730
Second, I think the explanation on the asterism proposal site is more than enough, but here goes some extra points I’ve read this days:
I can think of a lot of better names than fediverse:
Pubverse Subverse Freeverse Openverse Libreverse DCU (Decentralized Universe)
Subverse is a very cool name, but none of those are both accurate and sound good like Fediverse does.