Seeing the fediverse logo in Antifa colours made me chuckle
- Asudox ( @AsudoxDev@programming.dev ) English2•6 hours ago
Translation:
“ALWAYS ONLINE • ALWAYS HERE • FEDIVERSUM ANTIFA”
- Hundun ( @Hundun@beehaw.org ) English6•11 hours ago
If your org has a pentagram in its logo, yet you do not practice the occult&arcane, my beard is not joining.
- flamingos-cant ( @flamingos@feddit.uk ) English11•20 hours ago
Why are all the inner lines black but one? I hate it.
- Zorsith ( @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English12•20 hours ago
Anarchy A?
- flamingos-cant ( @flamingos@feddit.uk ) English17•19 hours ago
But wouldn’t three of the lines need to be red for that? Something like this:
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English8•10 hours ago
yeah i like that a lot more, kinda want to make the dots black though, feels like that contrast makes it a bit easier to see the A and generally looks better.
- _NoName_ ( @JayDee@lemmy.ml ) English3•9 hours ago
Not sure how but you made an abstract logo look like a leatherdaddy. Excellent work.
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English3•9 hours ago
hm, yeah i don’t see it, perhaps you think more about leatherdaddies than most people?
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@discuss.online ) English1•19 hours ago
Also it makes it look like basically all actual instances (circles) are fascist (red)?
Also, are antifascists the terminally online ones? But maybe there’s a language context nuance that I’m missing!?
Nice thought (supporting antifa) imho, but odd execution.
- flamingos-cant ( @flamingos@feddit.uk ) English9•19 hours ago
The red is probably for communism, the colours are the same as the anarcho-communism flag. Personally, I’ve always associated fascism with black, no idea why.
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@discuss.online ) English3•18 hours ago
Hitler was black (I mean… hopefully you know what I mean!?:-P), while Russia and China are red, so they truly could go either way.
In the USA I tend to associate antifa with black, probably bc Trump supporters are red - but as in red (Republican/“conservative”) vs. blue (Democrat/“liberal”) (yeah extremely heavy quotes on those terms… 😮💨).
Anyway, that would mean that the entirety of the Fediverse servers were antifa, which seems to contrast with Lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml that featured so prominently in its software development?
So either way it is a bit confusing, to me at least.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) English10•17 hours ago
Black flags are specifically anarchist. Red flags are specifically communist/Marxist. Red and black flags bisected tend towards things like anarcho-syndicalism and anarcho-communism, or even just socialist solidarity.
Communists are supposed to be antifa, which is not a strictly anarchist thing. It’s supposed to be a Popular Front-style alliance.
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@discuss.online ) English1•17 hours ago
Oh right, thanks. Indeed as you say it gets complicated, when up is down and left is upside down and right is inside out, due to people lacking morals wanting to associate themselves with “good things” despite being the polar opposite of those precise things.