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.
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 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.
I’ve noticed that. My instance doesn’t provide unlimited storage and I’d much rather crop and resize my pictures before upload. Not having tools for that is a bit of a deal breaker for me.
Of course, I could edit the images separately but it rather limits what I can be bothered to post as a result.
+1 for wanting rudimentary editing tools in client apps. i don’t need filters or anything fancy but cropping and scaling as features would probably help with platform adoption.
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.
I absolutely love dark mode and find light mode headache inducing but will never understand the elitist attitude beyond a quick joke. Accessibility is good in all forms!
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 😭
I can’t use light mode without inducing a migraine. It’s nice that we’re at a point in history where most apps have at least two accessible themes for different folks.
