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# Thoughts on a new image for the fediverse
- URL: https://werd.io/thoughts-on-a-new-image-for-the-fediverse/
- Published: 2024-08-24T15:25:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-14T19:23:11.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-11 21:47, Asides, Fediverse

This [proposed image for the fediverse](https://symbol.fediverse.info/) is good; I like it a lot.

But I don't know that the combative language on this site is helpful. The Meta iconography isn't right, I agree, but there's something off about calling them “a large corporation that is joining in as late” (sic).

For one thing, Meta is early; for another, it seems to me that we want companies to participate? I don’t think seeking ideological purity is useful (and run the risks of the movement shooting itself in the foot).

Whatever you think about Meta’s goals for participating, I do also think Meta’s presence gives the network a sort of legitimacy that it was otherwise struggling to achieve. That’s a net benefit: we must grow the network.

I also agree with [the point](https://www.manton.org/2024/08/24/i-like-the.html), made by Chris Messina, Manton Reece and others, that the right phrase is *the social web*, not the fediverse. The web is the network.