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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 01:09:17 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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   • grillchen
   @kura @grillchen I kind of fail to see how unicode helps, specially as then you'd need to somehow type it (good luck with that) or copy-paste it (so as annoying as a file).
   
   In fact reusing unicode seems quite worse, it's an existing symbol with meaning (either typography or well… freemasons), so text-to-speech / search engines / … aren't going to recognise it as Fediverse, unlike say :fediverse: (which you can image-search).
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     Aeder (aeder@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:12:57 JST Aeder

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     • grillchen
     @lanodan @grillchen @kura If not being in Unicode is such a big issue, why not submit a proposal to incorporate the symbol to the Unicode consortium? Don't they have a process to literally do that?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:15:26 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • grillchen
     • Aeder
     @Aeder @grillchen @kura Indeed they do. Although it's more for common symbols used by multiple or large communities.
     
     Like wouldn't make sense to have BSD, Linux, OSI, GNU, … logos in Unicode.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:24:17 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • grillchen
     • Aeder
     @Aeder @grillchen @kura Mere federation is another concept, specially as a lot of networks are federated (email, xmpp, matrix, …) yet aren't part of the fediverse (or well in xmpp case at least not directly, you get bridges instead).
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     Aeder (aeder@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:24:19 JST Aeder

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     • grillchen
     @lanodan @grillchen @kura Mmm, I see what you mean, but you could always submit this symbol to mean "Fediverse"/"Federated Software" rather than any specific project, right?
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     rheaplex (rheaplex@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:44:54 JST rheaplex

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     • grillchen
     • Aeder
     @Aeder @grillchen @lanodan @kura "federated social network" might be acceptable but then any software could use that. I helped submit the CC license module icons to Unicode and the line between "is a specific logotype" and "represents a concept" is one that they didn't want to blur.
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