For some reason whenever someone posts any news about Pixelfed one of the top comments is usually along the lines of “no dark mode, no use.” Boy do I have good news for those users!
Like the rest of the Fediverse, and unlike corporate media, there are multiple apps you can use! Examples:
- iOS has Impressia (fka Vernissage)
- Android has Pixeldroid
This is also useful for users who have qualms about the Pixelfed dev’s more… distasteful? behavior (example I found today) and don’t rock with rewarding it, kind of like how a lot of Lemmy users might block or defederate the flagship .ml instance.
I like Pixelix. It’s available on F-Droid
It doesn’t seem to have any image editing functionality…?
a good selection of these apps don’t. unsure if that’s an intentional choice or not.
Dansup has had multiple public bullshit tirades, it seems. He went ballistic about a developer recently who did something for Pixelfed, and ranted endlessly in the most egotistical fashion.
It sucks. Pixelfed is a nice addition to the fediverse, but that guy is a dick.
i genuinely have no desire to stir beef but i have never heard a single positive thing from or about the guy 😭 i hope i can be shown wrong
Same here. It’s unfortunate, because it is a nice project. But his attitude sours the whole thing.
I was following him on mastodon for updates, until he went on that ego trip. I had to mute him after that.
I’ve never used dark mode for anything and never will. It’s also funny how people care enough to dislike that I have a different preference, as the downvotes show.
valid i think there are some scientifically proven drawbacks both ways also dark mode is worse if u have astigmatism
That’s the thing that irks me when people are elitist about dark mode. Sorry I can’t use your edgy dark app with my feeble scrub eyes.
once i pointed out that most modern mobile OSes have a native “smart invert” which can make any app dark mode without messing with images and i got called ableist 😭
Its not as good tho, its a bit too litera
the downvotes are only because you seem to think shouting out that YOU don’t want a feature in a thread where everybody else wants it is not hypocritical
Your understanding of the meaning of ‘everybody’ is wildly flawed. The comments certainly don’t indicate that everyone wants that. There are 16 comments, of which 2 say they like dark mode and 2 say they like light mode.
Nor is providing an alternative viewpoint in reply to the post in any way hypocritical.
Nor was I shouting at any point.
Nor did I say I don’t want the feature, just that I don’t use it.
All in all, that’s a wild misunderstanding of what I actually said.
The downvotes are because people are anal over their preference for dark mode, as always.
