Yeah. That legitimacy problem is always an important one. I keep saying the same thing to the "good" christians and muslims around me.
You might be, and are as far as I can tell, truly good people who have faith in something honestly. The name you chose for your "honest personal belief", though, gives credence to the organized hate cults you share that name with.
The people running most large things, like reddit or countries, are idiots because people with half a brain are smart enough to see that that's not a position you want to put yourself in. Anyone who can see the enormity of the responsibility nope out a lot sooner than reaching that level of governance, and the idiots who can't see filter through.
I agree with people saying it should look towards the right.
I'm also fine with the general design idea of the one on the left but if this the final work, I will hard pass as the line work is extremely sloppy. Good for a first draft though.
Edit: I'm really sorry if this is worded a bit harshly. I really love the idea behind the mascot and the general design language. I just have experience with design, not as a designer but a project manager, so I am sensitive to technical details. Line work and shape language are vague but extremely important parts of logo -or mascot in this case- design. Once the design on the left gets a professional polish pass to finalize it, it should work great.
I would pay attention to line weight, as they are too skinny right now for the size of the bird, too many sharp corners creating a less welcoming shape language than I'd like, and line intersections aren't clean, disturbing the flow. The little bump on the back of the head looks a bit like someone gave the poor bird a whack rather than the natural shape of its head for example.
The problem here isn't talking to Meta or Meta making a federated platform.
Nobody can prevent Meta from doing that anyway.
The problem is the need to push against the insistence of Meta to keep these meetings off the record. It's against the entire philosophy of something like not only fediverse but FOSS in general.
If Meta wants good faith, they have to show it first.
Notice that in the email, Kev gives his guidance as to the matter. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you put people first and make a product for the purpose of serving them.
This should be the attitude everyone should have first.
We will accept you as long as you're bringing value to us, not the other way round, got that Meta?
As long as any dev is taking this approach, Meta included, I'm supporting them. If someone is secretive about their intentions about a public service which is not a for profit endeavor inherently, I'll have a hard pass too.
For the love of god, people, even if you like an idea very much, and want to be supportive of someone's efforts, it doesn't mean you can't be constructively critical!
The line work on this bird is atrocious. The idea is good, the general design idea is good.
It is a terribly executed bird head though.
The line weight is too low for the size, it's full of weird angles with lines not flowing into each other. Intersections around the beak are not clean as they look doubled up in places. There's no clear gesture in the shape language to either let the eye rest or direct it in meaningful way.
It's a somewhat cute bird, but this has to be cleaned up, a lot, to function as a real mascot.
I never meant you in particular meant this to be a finished work, in fact I thought you posted this in hopes of getting some constructive feedback rather than the blind adulation everyone showed here.
As far as I can see, nobody even bothered with thinking about what they are looking at and participating in the process of making it better, except that one person bringing up the balding dude silhouette.
I think it's on the right track as it is. Needs the improvements I mentioned, plus anything I can't see obviously, one person can't notice every detail ever.
As for help, I didn't offer any as I don't do vector art myself, so I wouldn't be able to solve the issues I mentioned, perhaps ironically.
A "Gamer" with an anime avatar, with 6 reputation points. These types don't have the best reputation on the internet. Take their comments with a grain of salt as they might be skewed towards a certain ideology somewhat.
That said, the "we didn't know it would be restricted this much" part strikes me the most.
It's one thing to not read through everything to form informed decisions but why not listen to all those who did read and were shouting from the rooftops that this was exactly what would happen? Why not believe the evangelicals and the state legislators they gerrymandered into office when they say this is their exact intention?
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
Inspired by the previous post of a very generous Lemmy user, here are some games that I have keys for that I will not use (from Humble bundles of years ago). I don’t really know how I will choose who gets them, I feel like just using upvotes kinda awards the more creative or charismatic people. I’ll probably use some sort of...
I'm not in for the giveaway, I'm just supporting the random select suggestion since you mentioned the inherent problem with upvotes.
You can use something to randomly match users with a game. Maybe you can devise a way to use a random sample generator used to group people for randomized studies.
Reddit is full of people who call it an app in conversation.
I thought they were talking about the reddit app but no, they are talking about the site itself as an app because they found it on the app store like they found tiktok
Yeah, but these people I'm talking about weren't using the technical but the colloquial definition. They mean a mobile app, which was clear within context, saying things like how it replaced their social media addiction to instagram since they found "this app".
Believe me, people complaining about the lack of fancy interfaces on their "apps" aren't using the technical term differentiating a we app from a static site.
The site is very new and is in active development. For now, it's mostly under the hood stuff but the stability of the experience increased quite a bit since I first started a week so they must be doing it right.
I believe the owner @ernest is doing the heavy lifting by himself.
As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things......
If the adoption rate continues and quality of life improvements such as efficient mobile apps keep getting made, I think it's inevitable. But I also think it can be a good thing, especially if the distributed instance culture with semi-independent communities persist. If the culture shifts so much to instances just being nodes into the larger "verse" so to speak, the general experience could shift a lot with it.
In any case, with all the different user experiences available already with Mastodon, kbin, lemmy, Calckey, Pixelfed and Peertube offering vastly different experiences into the same ecosystem, it'll be a lot more diverse I believe as everyone will find their own comfort zone.
They want fascists to take it over and spread their bigotry faster. I think that's the ulterior motive when the entire world seems hell bent on boosting extreme right wing ideologies, apparently trying to push the world into the next great war.
I sound like a tinfoil hat nut writing like this, I know. I'm a lot more level-headed normally but I feel a bit hyper right now for some reason.
Is this some sort of Tucker Carlsen impersonation attempt? I see questions flowing and leading to each other without necessarily disclosing any leaning as to the stance of the commenter.
I have no idea what your stance is on any of the issues at hand, and that makes it impossible to give a meaningful response. If I engaged with each question separately and answered them, the resulting comment would still look like a bunch of half-questions because they aren't questions with a solid structure even, as they are "maybe" questions. The answer to those is almost always "maybe" too.
Entire mod teams of r/interestingasfuck, r/TIHI and r/mildlyinteresting KICKED out. Some even locked out of their accounts (old.reddit.com)
Reddit admins removing the NSFW tags from subs with porn in them (compuverse.uk)
OC Here's my final idea for a Kbin mascot, I call it the "Kbird" (K = Kakatuá), since someone shared a Fediverse flag resembling a pirate flag I thought a bird mascot would fit.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)
The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
OC Here's the nice Kbird with changes that people suggested, is OK if it isn't the mascot of Kbin but it will always live in our hearts, the real mascot was the friends we made along the way.
CBS News poll finds most say Roe's overturn has been bad for country, half say abortion has been more restricted than expected (www.cbsnews.com)
Many women's concerns now extend beyond abortion access to health and reproductive care.
Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
You get to play one videogame for the first time again. What you picking?
Okay. If you could play any videogame again for the first time, what would it be?
Another game giveaway!
Inspired by the previous post of a very generous Lemmy user, here are some games that I have keys for that I will not use (from Humble bundles of years ago). I don’t really know how I will choose who gets them, I feel like just using upvotes kinda awards the more creative or charismatic people. I’ll probably use some sort of...
I made the mistake of checking Reddit (using my last few days of Apollo) and came across a complaint about Lemmy that flabbergasted me (lemmy.world)
Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?...
Bird trails (lemmy.world)
Amazing growing on Lemmy!! (lemmy.world)
In just 3 days more than 500.000 new users!! Lemmy for power, we will be legion, expect us!
If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
For me i would just place like random paintings, like NASA would be very confused on why Mars would have paintings lmao.
Lemmy growth curve
Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing...
Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?
As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things......
Look at this bootlicking BS
First post in Lemmy
Maybe spez is intentionally destroying Reddit. Because all their moves are illogical. It doesn't make sense.
Media cares little for immigrants. (feddit.uk)
Let that sink in (sh.itjust.works)