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Good morning Fedi friends!
I'd like to create a custom #Fediverse t-shirt for my upcoming talk at #BerlinFediDay.
I thought of maybe using the Fediverse logo as the "O" for "HOPE". What do you think? Trying to gauge if it's cheesy or not, I'd love some external opinion 😅
@_elena i would buy a version with H replaced with N 
@_elena i would buy a version with H replaced with N
@_elena
Fits!
When people have to think about it, it's perfect!
:-)
@_elena I think hope is doing nothing and having faith things will get better. Fedi to me is starting to actually do something.
I like it!
Some more O-able suggestions (unsolicited, I get it…):
@_elena It’s too close to HYPE … 😢
@_elena maybe use a margin of error of around 20% to account for people who selected “Nah…” when they actually meant to select “I like it”?
@_elena Take my money, please!
Maybe I'm being dense here:
Is HOPE related to Hackers on Planet Earth (or something else), or it related to the title of your talk?
All capitals makes me think abbreviation.
@_elena would you be allowed to put a row of fedi project logos below it? Though I suppose then people would pick at the order, so maybe it is just better to leave them off. I like it 😀
@_elena I love, I need it, please make it a thing 🙏
@_elena Could it be HYPE, too ?
maybe add some extra smaller text, like "join the fediverse" underneath, i don't know
my reasoning:
you know what the symbol means, i know what the symbol means, but most people do not. so putting a little education into the design is just the right bit of extra, i think
(and i know it's for berlin fedi day, and they will know, but it gives the t shirt some extra potential for other contexts, and any media disseminated some extra oomph)
@_elena To me, that reads like HAPE. Sarry, eh I mean sorry.
@_elena need an option for I love it! 😃
@_elena this is insane!! Great!! 👏🏻
@_elena you could add, starting from that "O" going downwards: Open
@_elena I try to look at it outside of the Fedi Day, and I don't think it would work well to communicate "fedi" since no one who doesn't already know it knows the logo.
Just "for the insiders" I find it cute though
@_elena Alternative option?
@thisislieven @_elena other alternative is the fediverse logo as P hole.. 🤣
Like so? I don't hate it but the focus is on the word rather than the logo, which feels like the wrong balance to me.
Actually... (what do you mean, I should get to work?). Building on that idea, this might work.
(I shall stop spamming the thread now)
@_elena I'm more a fan of the ⁂ asterism @FediverseSymbol and Mastodon seems to be adopting it too
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
@_elena I'm more a fan of the ⁂ asterism @FediverseSymbol and Mastodon seems to be adopting it too
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
May be slightly darkening the inner part of the logo, to make the outer part more visible ?
Else, I would have recognize a O.
@_elena I like it, although I first read it as "HAPE"
@_elena I also really like the general idea and love the focus on hope, but like @mjj my brain flipped a bit between “HOPE” and “HAPE”.
(But I don’t see any other helpful logo ideas - https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/history-fediverse-symbol/ - so this is perhaps the best to go with!)
And now I want one of these shirts, too! 🤣
@danyork
In this article the 2010 icon, Federated Social Web Logo, shows how logos are perfectly functional as monocrome.
I'm not saying that it's enough to remove colours from the current logo to let it work, cause it will remain too much symmetrical, while this basic problem has been solved (by a designer?) in the old one.
@_elena But I do like the HOPE bit. That is what to want and feel about this.
@_elena Colourful. I approve.
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