@liaizon Oh I absolutely agree.

You will recall that it took me forever to decide what to use as the favicon for https://jointhefediverse.net. Especially at the time the pentagram felt more recognizable, but...everything you just said.

@julian

@liaizon Yeah, there was some chitchat about it on the Mastodon Patreon Discord, apparently someone was in touch with one of the developers. They were grateful when I sent them the FEP link.

@julian has anyone pointed this out to them lol? this is remembering.

@stefan @julian its great it has its place, I am glad it exists, I have been using and promoting it since it was proposed originally. But it needs a major rethink if/when people try to shoehorn it next to a simplified pictogram
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@liaizon They did that thing where they implemented the interaction policy, but not the approval process, leaving them with an implementation that declares that it can do Mastodon quote posts, but actually cannot. I think Sharkey had that issue on a minor version for a little bit.

@polyfloyd wow I hadn't seen https://commet.chat before this, thanks, this is a super nice Matrix client. cc @douginamug

@dthompson @cwebber @spritely

Simple solution

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

@liaizon That's all valid criticism!

I do like ⁂, and it seems to be already pretty widely accepted as the new fediverse logo.

I guess I'm personally feeling a bit nostalgic about the old one, even though I'm not the biggest fan of the design itself, I will admit.

@julian

Anna’s Archive Quietly ‘Releases’ Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback

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Despite being sued by Spotify and several record labels, Anna's Archive has silently begun releasing the actual music files from its massive Spotify scrape. The shadow library's backend torrent index now lists dozens of new torrents containing…

@julian @stefan I will continue my slow fight against this monstrous complexity of a symbol. It doesn't work at small sizes and without the rainbow it's not recognizable at all

@liaizon @claudeai

@dantescanline I am honestly really torn about what to think about the new QP thing, on one hand it's really cool to watch the whole ecosystem roll out support for a new feature and slowly upgrade the abilities of the whole network, but it sure adds a whole-nother aspect of complexity and pitfalls of things that can feel half broken

Another short, sharp version of The Two Chomskys on Novara Media

https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/09/there-are-two-noam-chomskys-the-one-you-love-and-the-one-that-was-friends-with-jeffrey-epstein/

@sturmsucht bravo Chris - awesome photo 🔥

and thank you 🥰

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Thanks for sharing, this is huge news! I've been using share-nodes and circle-nodes in NodeBB to represent fediverse stuff (or @liaizon@social.wake.st's asterisms), but I will likely switch over to this once we update our FontAwesome library

@liaizon Ah, won't be able to unsee this now!

Look mum! I made it into a blog post!

Let's not forget that @_elena was there too with her camera and she actually made me bring mine. 🤗

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

@liaizon @betula aah okay didn't know thanks, that's cool!