Thought I’d share some ideas I’ve been floating, to implement a unified branding across all instances. Instances could opt-in for a consistent identity across the platform, using an official trademark with their instance address embedded below it. Instances that use “lemmy” in their second-level domain name would simple append their .tld (such as .world), or use .sld.tld when “lemmy” is accessible from a subdomain (such as .dbzer0.com). Seemingly unrelated domain names, such as beehaw.org, would just omit the leading dot.

The navbar background itself could be further customized by the local instance. I imagine something like a watermark of a globe for lemmy.world, or a watermarked maple leaf for lemmy.ca, etc.

Obviously this is a very rough take on things (including the art style), and I’m just brainstorming ideas at this point.

What are your thoughts?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why would you want this? That is the exact opposite of how instances should do their themes 😭

    • thayer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Many instances will absolutely want to do their own branding across the board, and that’s totally fine, but I also believe that many would like to see a unified approach to the platform. The beauty of the decentralization is that site admins are free to run their instance however they like.

  • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

    You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

    • thayer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

      I don’t think it does. Decentralized doesn’t mean every instance must appear unique from one another, though they certainly can if that is their wish. There’s no reason why a group of common instances shouldn’t want to provide a unified approach to branding their platform.

      You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

      Thanks, the theme is just my usual rediggit for lemmy (the dark variant is coming soon). The point of the post was just to highlight the navbar logo concept.