a bunch of assholes conected to each other... sounds about right.
I was gonna say snowflakes, but now I can't unsee the buttholes.
If Greendale Community College was a University.
It’s a sarcasterisk.
Not an asterism but an assterism (or arseterism).
I'd rather see the current 
logo added to Unicode than reuse an existing symbol. It's not impossible, considering that the Bitcoin symbol (₿) ended up making it.
I don't think it works well typographically but I'd like to see a mockup
What I'm hearing here is
closest current one I can find is
or
Emojis used zero width joiner to combine multiple single code point emoji to a single combined emoji.
⛥ + ZWJ + ⬠ could form the combined character, and be rendered as desired.
pretty sure this guy is trying to trick someone else into summoning a demon. It's like telling people to hit alt-f4 to chat.
Which would hopefully give something like this
I kind of like the idea of just using pentagram. ⛥
Close enough to the current logo in appearance, scales well, not used by other social media, satanic undertones.
I like it because it reminds me of the Japanese kanji 森 Mori (Forest).
Which is in and of itself brilliant because it’s the kanji 木 Ki (Tree) repeated three times and bunched together.
Technically, the words are adopted from Chinese (in this case both Traditional and Simplified are the same and have not diverged yet); but same meaning and reasoning, just different pronunciation.
Am I misunderstanding this - you want to replace a recognised symbol with a symbol that's already being used by another group? That seems counterproductive at best.
I'm also wondering, have you spoken to anyone with poor eyesight? This is my reply to a comment below suggesting that the new symbol would be easier to read:
I'm reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn't already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn't have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A. Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it's not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size
It looks like a bunch of snowflakes, making it very representative.
EDIT Why change something that isn't broken?
Whoever decided that a logo should be standardised as Unicode? That is the worst criterion for picking a symbol that has and will have hundreds of other uses than inline text. If it's so important — work to have the current, pentacle fediverse symbol included in Unicode.
Registering a domain to introduce your dumb idea with a lot of empty bravado leaves you with ... an annual bill and a dumb idea. The pentacle symbol is so much more recognisable.
Stealing an icon already designated for something else? As is tradition
Having a unicode icon that can be copy pasted anywhere is nifty, but yeah I'm really not a fan of choosing this one.
Why do we need to have a unicode character that refers to the fediverse?
Are we trying to replace our alphabetical language with a language of ideograms?
Its use looks contrived to me on the linked GitHub page. The comparison with @ and # is flawed because those symbols are part of the resource name, whereas here the symbol is superfluous. It's like adding a 🌐 in front of every web URL.
Nah, It won't happen because you can't type it on a keyboard.
Yeah I tried it and it fell over ***
Can we use dog buttholes instead of cat buttholes
This looks like shit, is used for something else already, we already have an icon for the fediverse and this has 0 reason to exist
Why though? We don't need a symbol. Is it that hard to type "fediverse"? The fediverse logo is good enough.
Testing a little side by side comparison
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And in white, for the dark mode folks:
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But it's hardly a fair comparison, especially because it seems I cannot upload SVG files to Mbin. I also didn't make the lines thinner or any other adjustments that might be a good idea at this scale. Still, might be better than noting.
What a bunch of snowflakes. I like the idea. This was my first thought though
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