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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

TL;DR: What is the best (or good enough) emoji to represent the fedivers?


I'm updating my union section's website [^1] (wordpress) and I want to add a link to the mastodon account of a territorial grouping using an emoji. This territorial grouping has an account on mastodon and hubzilla, it abandoned corporate social accounts (x, insta…).

[^1]: I'm from Catalonia, where most of the unions are federated/confederated industrials unions and 'Seccions Sindicals' are the organizational structures of the union in each of the companies.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

There's been people trying to push ⁂ as a way to represent the fediverse using a unicode symbol. I'm not sure it's really taken off, but it's an option.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I'm not sure if it's better that the suggestions of @[email protected] (⭐, 🌟) or use some 'gloves' emojis (🌍, 🌎, 🌏, 🌐). But I will try it (⁂)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Making this a TLC to promote visibility, though I wasn't the one to discover it:

⚝ U+269d "Outlined White Star"

I think it works great, in reference to the rainbow star thing!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The most common symbol is the rainbow pentagon star thing, which there isn't much very close to in emoji, but you could use ⭐ or 🌟.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

There is ⚝ U+269d "Outlined White Star". Tho no idea how well it looks at any usual reading resolution (12 to 16 pt).

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ooh, I like this one. A unicode approximation of an already accepted symbol is nice.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Me too. Surprised I haven't come accross it before.

Testing:

⚝
⚝
⚝

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Bolded looks nice

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How much say do you have on the technical site of the page? Maybe have a custom icon recognized by the templating engine, using a Unicode code point from the private use area. This could be implemented using an icon font.

The commonly used symbol to represent the Fediverse is this one.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Can it be an ascii and emoji picture? I have an ex who made guy with an eggplant for a dong

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's a couple options on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

Edit: not sure if the page exists in Catalan or not, though. ForΓ§a BarΓ§a.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, but I prefer an emoji/utf-x. Images are a problem when it comes to fitting text around them.

i visca catalunyai roja (and red)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know for sure, but GIMP may be able to convert an image to emoji/utf-x.

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