Having a logo design contest is exploitative to designers. Especially for a huge company.
Logo design is something everyone thinks they can do, but really? No you can't.
The new logo is terrible.
Twitter's name and branding was one of the valuable things Musk bought! And twitter's branding was top notch-- and probably not free.
It's contempt for creative work. The implosion continues.
I know it's easy to make fun of logo designers and the mystical abstract things they talk about-- but it's just one of those things that when it works it really works.
The fediverse has a massive branding problem-- but also a legitimate excuse: it's not easy to do branding in this context.
There isn't any real fediverse logo. Most people call it "Mastodon" -- which simply isn't correct.
Amazing to see a big company want to emulate the troubles of those with no ad budget.
@futurebird I thought the sort of rainbow pentagram was the Fediverse logo:
