Thanks to @villapirorum@indieweb.social for making these lovely 88x31px Join the Fediverse badges! Hope to see these out in use on the world wild web
https://codepen.io/villepreux/full/MYbBqGa
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂
@FediverseSymbol@typo.social
mastodon 4.6.9A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
https://symbol.fediverse.info
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/116653639309265430
WordPress has been using the fediverse symbol for a while now, and it's lovely to see them highlight it in prominent places like the release of their new social Reader!
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We spotted a wild @tommi@pan.rent running free at @dweb@social.coop
Coming across many examples of the fediverse symbol in use at #DwebCamp this year. Check out @douginamug@mastodon.xyz's hand collaged button!
A bit late posting this one, but we were very happy to see WebSocialBR (@websocialbr) using the ⁂ in their promo for the first Brazilian fediverse conference last December!
https://websocial.org.br/1o-websocialbr-forum-do-fediverso-brasileiro
Originally posted by @alquimidia (https://pixelfed.social/p/alquimidia/908891215835166698) with the photo by @elimarcaranguejo@organica.social
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RE: https://typo.social/@triple/116733505165922247
Our friend @triple@typo.social unveiled this radical new take on an asterism symbol as a part of an upcoming font:
A manifesto for ⁂ as a symbol for the fediverse
https://symbol.fediverse.info/
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Love to see the fediverse symbol getting used in different ways!
"@fedipourgaza@eldritch.cafe is a collective providing assistance to the 171 Palestinian families present in the fediverse"
https://fedipourgaza.org
Wonderful to see @publicspaces@social.publicspaces.net using the asterism on their Dutch language Fediverse Helpdesk website:
https://publicspaces.net/fediverse-helpdesk
⁂ FEDIVERSE IÇIN BIR SEMBOL
@ e-postanın simgesidir. # etiketlerin simgesidir. ☮ barışın simgesidir. ♻ geri dönüşümün simgesidir. ⁂ ise Fediverse'in simgesi olabilir.
https://symbol.fediverse.info/tr
Çeviri için teşekkürler @verdant@ieji.de
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Have you spotted any new asterisms lately? Let us know so we can spotlight them!
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The font Ops and Ever by @janegbers@typo.social supports the asterism symbol!
https://ops-type.com/typefaces/ops-and-ever
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RE: https://post.lurk.org/@thgie/117002673704952643
Maybe the first dissertation to contain the fediverse symbol?!
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Discovered that the fediverse media review platform @neodb@mastodon.social is using our favorite little symbol ⁂ on their login page now!
You can see it in action here: https://neodb.social/account/login
Spotting the asterism in use in the wild always warms our little heart. Just came across this @sfscon event that used it last year!
Happy to see @manyfold@3dp.chat is now using the asterism ⁂ in their interface!
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⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.
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We know at least two previous symbols:
The pentagram icon is the original one, created back in 2018 by @drq and @eudaimon. It’s a great depiction of the decentralised nature of the fediverse! But its design is too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button, and it’s an image.
The other icon was made by Meta in 2024. It incorrectly depicts a centralised network. We also don’t believe that this corporation should be the one defining the iconography of the fediverse.
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@betula@fosstodon.org we are happy to co-exist!
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If you’re interested in our proposal, let’s chat about it! You can use the ⁂ symbol on your webpages and accounts, make badges and buttons, suggest changes for our webpage, make new translations of it, share your favourite ⁂ designs from interesting fonts, etc. Have fun with it!
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⁂ exists as Unicode U+2042. As a typographical character, not an icon that needs to be inserted as an image, it’s unique-looking but standardised. This means it’s very easy to copy-paste around and insert anywhere! Its design style also automatically adapts to the font used where you insert it.
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Thanks to the interconnected nature of the fediverse, it usually doesn’t matter if someone is a member of one platform or another. What matters is that they can follow each other as part of the fediverse. A single symbol to represent that belonging can often be more relevant than individual icons for each service.
⁂ could be the symbol for the fediverse.
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@evan@cosocial.ca In an ideal world, ⁂ would be after every item in this list, so maybe useless in the end. Until that time, ⁂ can help to make following choices.
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social This all started as an open question “whats the best unicode character to represent the fediverse?” https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/108974105137722178
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@sfrazer434@mastodon.social Hahaha we do have three an…asterisks instead of one though, so we are much more pluribus.
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@shadow06@mastodon.social Those are different concepts. The fediverse defines the ensemble of social networks linked by the protocol Activitypub.
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@crowbriarhexe @jeder The other thing is on a visual design standpoint: unless you have a very good screen and very good eyes, the details kind of disappear at that size, the pixels mix up the small details. Hence the idea of a simpler, one-colour, symbol for uses like that.
It’s just a proposal. We have no pretense of replacing everywhere the original pentagram (we cannot insert it on our instance), we actually like it a lot for what it means and how it’s been used by the community.
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@fabiscafe it's size depends entirely on the thing you are using to look at it like any other piece of text. If used in image you can also change or modify it in many ways and its still recognizable.
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@jeder @crowbriarhexe The timing is unfortunate indeed, but it’s really unrelated, we started talking about this idea in 2022, so absolutely not following any trend started by that monster.
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@evan@cosocial.ca In UI on a social app that have both local interactions and outside interactions, it could mean the second one, something like “someone from another server” / “someone from the wider fediverse”.
Or if you write it yourself, it might be more like “⁂ @evan@cosocial.ca” as “this is my fediverse handle, no matter the platform”
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@grishka Look at our favicon for our quick take at a sharp 16×16 version. We have a vector here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol/src/branch/pages/img/favicon-vector.svg that reduces well at that size, as well as a hand-made pixel version there: https://codeberg.org/fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol/src/branch/pages/img/favicon-black.png (we have indeed a 1px offset, but in many use cases that’s not visible). Do like your solution of putting the asterisks 90°, there’s something there that could be explored more!
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social If you are interested in the process you can read more here https://codeberg.org/fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol#fediverse-symbol
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social It is a proposal, as said in the first line of the article. We don’t want, and can’t impose it, obviously!
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@geeksam@ruby.social @getalifemike@urbanists.social Oh yes in a way the asterism is absolutely a variant of dinkus, simply one in a triangle layout :) The original usage is pretty much the same.
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@SocksPls@mastodon.xyz Weird, I have the exact same config and I see it like this. Will investigate, thanks!
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@prz@hachyderm.io In our idea the color adapts to the text color around it, or can be turned into any relevant color fitting the use. However, when making graphics out of it, it’s definitely possible to bring back more colors for esthetics and extra meaning. See this proposal for instance: https://bcn.fedi.cat/objects/4c635366-293d-4a86-9c1c-215c6f2c732f
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what do you think of the initiative @grishka? Would you agree that the pentagram symbol doesnt work at such small sizes with type?
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@evan@cosocial.ca Yees, we actually had the share icon and the RSS icon as references when thinking about it! Link and attachments are good prior art too thanks. Edit: Oops, switched instance, but still @nclm@mastodon.social answering.
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Anyone spot an asterism in the wild recently?