i can find them when using a client like Boost for Lemmy, but i can't find them when I'm on hexbear.
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You might have disabled SVG on your browser.
so i figured it out but what's SVG?
Its a image format where it describes how to draw lines and curves instead of transmitting the image itself.
I didn't know you could disable it and I'm not sure why one would do so?
Scalable vector graphics. In short it is an image format (2D vector graphics) based on xml which offers benefits which offers benefits with some risks(if users are allowed to upload svgs at least) for developers but can also execute code so it can be a potential security risk so I assumed you might have turned it off like some people do. Cloudflare article about the potential security risk.
Here is how the notification and menu icons look with Scalable vector graphics turned off.
and this is what it looks with it turned on