minus-squareelrik@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•A symbol for the fediverse ⁂linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·5 months agoIts 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. linkfedilink
minus-squareelrik@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunchlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoPlease call them Elon’s x-crements instead. linkfedilink
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.