[SOLVED] Why do a lot of people put a ground symbol (⏚) in their username (esp on Mastodon)?

WFH@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 88 points –

Solved: It's used by members and/or supporters of Les Soulèvements de la Terre, a French radical ecologist movement disbanded by Macron's right-wing government.

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I don't think I've ever seen that symbol in a username anywhere.

Maybe you can just ask them?

A French environmentalists organization which was disbanded for being "eco terrorists" for Conservative use the ground symbol as a logo.

I'm not sure about the French translation, but another word for ground is Earth. As a guess, an environmentalist group is probably adapting it from that terminology.

I don’t know but that’s a ground symbol like you would see on an electronics schematic.