For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
What makes it official, I didn’t come across it when I was searching for an app. I finally see why all the other apps use a rat as their logo.
Jerboa has the same lead developers and is part of the same GitHub organization as the Lemmy server and web UI.
The logo for Lemmy itself is the head of a rodent, supposedly a lemming. Most instances use that logo or a variation of it in their web UI. Jerboa and other apps in turn tend to use a rodent in the logo.