omg you’re serious. ha ha, dumbass.

Hate speech. Reported. Not cool.

There is no real dichotomy between the logo we have and the proposed typographical symbol. They have different uses, neither can really replace the other. Keep the established colourful Fediverse logo in visual layouts and when desired use the typographical symbol in text. It is natural that they won’t be exactly the same symbol because they are designed for different needs; one is meant to look pretty and one is meant to read well as text.

No I’m just so very bored and this is the classic bikeshed issue so I figure I won’t cause any problems here.

Booo!!! Satan hater!! Hey everyone, this guy hates Satan!!!

That’s nonsense.

If you know what those reasons are, then whether or not they have been articulated should not influence how you feel about those reasons. To think I could control your mind by not saying things. Just think of all the things I am not saying right now. You’ll go mad.

If you DON’T know what those reasons are, then you are simply not able to respect them less than you do now.

I… umm… yes, I will grant that in UTF-8 and perhaps UTF-16, it encodes to fewer bytes. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point.

Oh my god, you’re right. How could I have failed to see the risk. They must be stopped at all costs.

pretty sure this guy is trying to trick someone else into summoning a demon. It’s like telling people to hit alt-f4 to chat.

I don’t think it works well typographically but I’d like to see a mockup

eg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome

this guy RCFs

It’s not being used by another group to represent themselves. It’s a technical symbol like degrees or pi. This idea is similar to how the semicolon is being re-used as a symbol for a group of people. Nothing is being stolen from anyone.

Can you answer, “Why do we need a symbol that represents the Fediverse?” Because modulo that, your question becomes, “Why does the symbol that represents the Fediverse have to have a Unicode codepoint?”

We don’t need it to be a Unicode character, but there are advantages if it is that are so obvious they don’t even bear discussion.

It’s literally a character, like aitch.

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I’m pretty sure we’re cool to use it. The advantage of using a glyph that already exists in Unicode is huge.

The Bible is not 100% consistent on whether or not it is important to be a good person. Most people believe it is important or necessary for eternal joy rather than eternal suffering.

It’s not an unreasonable point of view, when you consider how focused on judgement and divine surveillance Christianity is compared to literally any other religion. Santa, with his list of good and bad boys, who sees you when you’re sleeping, and rewards all the good boys and girls for their belief and behaviour, is very very very clearly influenced by Christian mythology. He might have weaponized it in a most uncharitable way, but you kind of have to own the core criticism.

So, how do you think you’re doing in this discussion?

Also, because chickens are sentient, sapient creatures! Their experiences are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own.

It’s aggressively bad.