the old one looked really good; it had character and skeuomorphism and stood out in the instance list
the new one looks.. fine, i guess. it's there. i can't really say anything about it, apart from it's a bit dark and too busy, but it has nothing going for it
to be honest, it's the simplification that i dislike. it's so fucking corporate and soulless, it looks like somebody outsourced it to the cheapest bidder
i also think it is starting to look dated, as even corporations are moving back to designs with depth (look at the new edge logo and fluent design in general, or gnome circle apps)
I've made a post just yesterday with some suggestions xD But I guess they were already working on a new one, and the generic globe was just a placeholder.
The new one seems to follow the same style as their Mastodon.world logo.
I think it's better than the placeholder, but a bit hard to read maybe.
And I particularly would prefer if the Lemmy instances tried to follow a similar design rules (in the logo and overall site design, and if possible in their names/domains lol), so it have a consistent branding and look more visually appealing to possible new users.
The lettering doesn’t scale very well. I assume it worked better for Mastodon World being “MW.” With this being “LW” the same stylisation looks fairly awkward, especially when scaled down.