An important distinction is slowly being uncovered about the definition of the term "fediverse." Who is it that gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented? These are not easy questions to answer and if we don't do a better job describing ourselves, then the job will get done for us by people who don't understand the underlying values we hold. #fediverse #meta #threads
@liaizon
I don't understand why the fediverse or Mastodon, etc have Logos. There is no official E-Mail Logo, FTP, etc.
It should just get a boring name like "Social Network". Thrn you just ask people "what's your social network tag?" and they say "it's @cooldude on X". Then you can just reply, Oh that's not a social network tag, that's not even connected to the social network standard.
@EcoLogicExplorer @liaizon I think people are used to seeing an envelope next to an email address.
Not saying that makes it a "logo", but it sort of functions as one, and is useful in some contexts, like quickly scanning a page to find contact information.
@stefan @EcoLogicExplorer I think symbols not logos are really what we are talking about here. Here in Berlin these (
✆) phone symbols are used everywhere. Work vehicles often have a phone number on the side that begins with 555-222-3432 etc though the government is now using WhatsApp here way more then "real" phone numbers and they usually have the WhatsApp logo next to it. Its on all the trash cans in the subway here.