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@FediverseSymbol this is unconvincing:

"We also don’t believe that a large corporation that is joining in as late should be the one defining the iconography for the fediverse."

Who are *you*, though? If your argument is ad hominem, show your names and your bona fides. Why should anyone care what you believe?

And if you're proposing a symbol after Threads, isn't that even later?

@FediverseSymbol you also say this: "@ is the symbol for e-mail. # is the symbol for hashtags. ☮ is the symbol for peace. ♻ is the symbol for recycling. ⁂ can be the symbol for the fediverse."

These are not the symbols you should compare to. The most recent symbol that makes sense to compare to is the AI twinkles ✨.

qz.com/how-became-the-unoffici

The asterism seems really close to it.

Quartz · How ✨ became the unofficial AI emojiBy Michelle Cheng
Evan Prodromou

@FediverseSymbol Nobody puts an @ on a web page to show what to click to send email. They put an envelope ✉️.

The other thing they do is put an email address, like "username@domain.example". People recognize that format as a way to reach someone by email.