Can we use the actual fediverse symbol instead of that asterism?

issue raised on the wp_activitypub github:

What the title says.

Or just don’t drop symbols inline. That wishy-washy asterism BS is such a pearl clutching gentrification of the witchy, nonconformist roots of the fediverse.

Fuck yeah rainbow pentagrams 🤘

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    3 months ago

    It’s a typographical symbol consisting of three asterisks ⁂ — it has literally and visually nothing to do with the fediverse, except some fickle worrywarts campaigned for it to replace the rainbow pentagram a while back.

    And it needs to get in the sea.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, but the asterism is hardly readable at small sizes either. The solution would be to have the rainbowgram included in Unicode standards, but clearly somebody preferred a triangle of anuses over a widely adopted existing symbol 🙄