Can we use the actual fediverse symbol instead of that asterism?
issue raised on the wp_activitypub github:
What the title says.
Or just don’t drop symbols inline. That wishy-washy asterism BS is such a pearl clutching gentrification of the witchy, nonconformist roots of the fediverse.
Fuck yeah rainbow pentagrams 🤘
See, there’s a typographic argument I can get behind. Having worked as a magazine layouter and kerning pincher, horizontal alignment is a very valid point.
As for handwriting, that’s barely an issue since we’re talking online text, but let’s go: Is an asterism easier to write by hand? Not really, you have to squeeze in three asterisks in the height of one line. They’ll likely render as blobs. Could you draw a star easier and faster? I think so.
Stars are perhaps even more common in written text for highlights and annotations than typed text, at least around here. I can draw a star much faster than three asterisks. But it wouldn’t be very easily distinguishable as the Fediverse star. And that’s the same between the regular sharp and pointy star and the rounded outline one.