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Re: A symbol for the Fediverse

#72

Post by krapp »

neilv wrote: post #63
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a company, nobody leads it This is sort of like meeting one vegan protester and deciding you won't eat any vegetable because you didn't like them

> This is sort of like meeting one vegan protester and deciding you won't eat any vegetable because you didn't like them So I'm saying "Don't listen to that one vegan protestor who is kicking that puppy, because the effect will be that even fewer people will eat their vegetables." In any case, everyone in the nebulous Fediverse who doesn't want to remain only a fringe-iverse, would do well to collectively decide upon…

I think this symbol is kind of pointless and I doubt anyone is going to use it "like the Prince symbol," so I don't think this is really even an issue. That said, there's nothing wrong with being fringe, or preferring slow growth. After all, Hacker News' entire design ethos and cultural imperative is keeping Eternal September at bay by aggressively gatekeeping against the unwashed hordes of normies and Redditors and moderating against anything "true hackers" shouldn't find interesting.

I don't want the masses to ruin the Fediverse the way they ruined everything else. I don't want influencers, marketers, grifters, shills, stooges, incels, nazis, predators and bots proliferating into every online space like cockroaches. I don't want the Fediverse to be captured and transformed into a Skinner box of endorphine-dripping two minutes hate struggle sessions, misinformation, propaganda, viral marketing and vapid memes. Most people coming to the Fediverse are explicitly doing so to escape all of that.

Re: A symbol for the Fediverse

#73

Post by Retr0id »

thiht wrote: post #69
Retr0id wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't even need to write out fediverse, "fedi" is broadly recognized as an abbreviation.

What? Not at all.

Let me rephrase, it's about as broadly understood as the term "fediverse" itself, when used in-context.

Re: A symbol for the Fediverse

#77

Post by roryokane »

Teknomancer wrote: post #74
Tepix wrote: post #71

I like it. I hope we can soon use it on HN, too. ⁂ Edit: seems to work alread, nice

It's Unicode... Of course it works.

Hacker News filters out Unicode emoji characters from comments (example: ), so it’s not “of course”. I assume the developers think emoji are too distracting.
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