@[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:
- It can be indexed
- It can be shown in a console and virtually any device
- Can also fit any size for print
- Shit's more accessible and hence more inclusive than any colors can represent. Period.
- Can be modified by your font, for better or worse. You can even color it or put the old logo in it's place, so every time someone puts a ⁂ you see a :fedi:
- Networks aren't supposed to be the same, sticked to each other, just connected.
- It can live along the pentagram. It's a symbol, not a logo.
- It can't be trademarked, which is good for us.
@ShortN0te @0x0 I mean the real problem here is that MS office is a mess but somehow still standardized, so "enforcing standards" would be as easy as showing MS the middle finger and using libre office. They'd save a lot of money and time, it's a clear win-win scenario imho