@luana how is the asterism corporate? it has been a grass roots effort to get this symbol to where it is recognized as it is today. it came from issues with the symbol not working without the rainbow color and there not being any good solution to solving this. there are many cases (like this one) where a multicolored symbol simply does not work

@meso @phnt thanks for calling me an actual nobody. Real sweet of you.

@luana @Mastodon I think you're confusing it with the icon Meta made up for the fediverse. The asterism is a fediverse invention.

@Gargron @Mastodon isn't this heavily inspired on Metas one? It's basically the same anyway, except for asterisks instead of circle people

@luana @Gargron @Mastodon i'm pretty sure it's the other way around, the asterism was original in Fedi first and was then adopted by Meta. doesn't mean insisting on something from Unicode isn't very corporatey anyway, that's literally what Twitter did when it moved to X.

@Yuvalne @luana y'all got it quite a bit upside-down. The asterism was an idea by a group of people here (started by me and two friends) specifically to counteract Meta using a proprietary icon for Threads to represent the fedi. This thing has nothing directly to do with Unicode & was not at all related to X using the math symbol (that also happens to be in Unicode)

The whole reason that its nice that ⁂ is in Unicode is that we don't need to do any additional work to display it everywhere