Notices by Prentiss Riddle 🎛 (pzriddle@mstdn.io)

@villares @feditips @rye

It merits more than a guide. It merits a redesign.

This is exactly the kind of usability problem that would get a regular commercial service laughed off the internet for design incompetence, but in the Fediverse we bend over backwards to forgive the software and blame the user.

@stoneymonster @flockofnazguls

We need an actual IP attorney to weigh in, but you can certainly trademark existing words - consider "Apple".

So it wouldn't surprise me if you can in fact trademark an existing Unicode character.

Trademark doesn't prevent people from using your mark, it just prevents them from using it to offer competing goods or services in the same industry or market. Which is why my local fruit stand can still sell "apples".