CynAq

For the love of god, people, even if you like an idea very much, and want to be supportive of someone's efforts, it doesn't mean you can't be constructively critical!

The line work on this bird is atrocious. The idea is good, the general design idea is good.

It is a terribly executed bird head though.

The line weight is too low for the size, it's full of weird angles with lines not flowing into each other. Intersections around the beak are not clean as they look doubled up in places. There's no clear gesture in the shape language to either let the eye rest or direct it in meaningful way.

It's a somewhat cute bird, but this has to be cleaned up, a lot, to function as a real mascot.

As it is now, it's at the design idea stage.

Yeah, of course. It was a tongue in cheek comment that didn't land well.

If the adoption rate continues and quality of life improvements such as efficient mobile apps keep getting made, I think it's inevitable. But I also think it can be a good thing, especially if the distributed instance culture with semi-independent communities persist. If the culture shifts so much to instances just being nodes into the larger "verse" so to speak, the general experience could shift a lot with it.

In any case, with all the different user experiences available already with Mastodon, kbin, lemmy, Calckey, Pixelfed and Peertube offering vastly different experiences into the same ecosystem, it'll be a lot more diverse I believe as everyone will find their own comfort zone.

I don't know how many sinks I have to let in at this point.

As well as higher average IQ, it feels like.

I like the idea of a kbird.

I agree with people saying it should look towards the right.

I'm also fine with the general design idea of the one on the left but if this the final work, I will hard pass as the line work is extremely sloppy. Good for a first draft though.

Edit: I'm really sorry if this is worded a bit harshly. I really love the idea behind the mascot and the general design language. I just have experience with design, not as a designer but a project manager, so I am sensitive to technical details. Line work and shape language are vague but extremely important parts of logo -or mascot in this case- design. Once the design on the left gets a professional polish pass to finalize it, it should work great.

I would pay attention to line weight, as they are too skinny right now for the size of the bird, too many sharp corners creating a less welcoming shape language than I'd like, and line intersections aren't clean, disturbing the flow. The little bump on the back of the head looks a bit like someone gave the poor bird a whack rather than the natural shape of its head for example.

On the day of the AMA, I edited all my comments to fuck u/spez, and a r/selfawarewolves mod banned me for "spamming".

Then I complained out of spite and got unbanned immediately, but the mod reminded me how "irresponsible it was of me to put the crosshairs on them".

The people running most large things, like reddit or countries, are idiots because people with half a brain are smart enough to see that that's not a position you want to put yourself in. Anyone who can see the enormity of the responsibility nope out a lot sooner than reaching that level of governance, and the idiots who can't see filter through.

A "Gamer" with an anime avatar, with 6 reputation points. These types don't have the best reputation on the internet. Take their comments with a grain of salt as they might be skewed towards a certain ideology somewhat.

That said, the "we didn't know it would be restricted this much" part strikes me the most.

It's one thing to not read through everything to form informed decisions but why not listen to all those who did read and were shouting from the rooftops that this was exactly what would happen? Why not believe the evangelicals and the state legislators they gerrymandered into office when they say this is their exact intention?

The hubris is palpable.

Agreed.

With the submarine story, it's like a film scenario. Every detail is something unusual, and not tragic in itself. Well, depends on who you ask. There are many people who think billionaires existing is a very real tragedy, and rightly so, but I digress.

With billionaires in a comic-book-supervillain submarine lost on their way to see the Titanic wreck, you can laugh at the $30 controller, or wonder where their brains were, or if anybody looked at their financials because this also would work as a movie scenario where 4 billionaires pay someone to disappear them because they didn't pay taxes or something.

Refugee boat sinking is actual tragedy, with the added bonus of the entire western world having some level of guilt in creating. When the average, empathy having person hears about it, they feel complex emotions from sadness to guilty conscience for casually hearing about it from the comfort of their couch... It's difficult to deal with.

The answer can be many things if you go into detail but the summary is change is hard.

Look at how many downvotes this thread received. It's mind boggling how large a portion of us, even in these seemingly progressive environments like kbin, are transphobic.