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 🤘
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.
Oh, was this because of the association of pentagrams with Satanism?
no, because “its design is a little too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button. It’s also only available in image form, not as a typographical character.”
https://symbol.fediverse.info/
I like the idea of using a symbol but its ugly sadly
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 🙄