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What makes it cool?

• CamperBob2 1y ago
  It shoves dark mode down your throat whether you want it or not. What could be cooler than that?
  • pavo-etc 1y ago
    There's an option
    • CamperBob2 1y ago
      Really. Where? Unhelpful answers of the form "Just install extension X for browser Y and use it to run script Z" are all anyone has ever been able to suggest when I've asked this question elsewhere.
      • glenstein 1y ago
        If you click on Preferences, it's under Appearance which is the first section you see. You can change the site theme to a light option. At least on Mastodon.social.
        • CamperBob2 1y ago
          There's no Preferences button. If there is, they've either hidden it well, or it's not visible without a login. There should simply be a button -- a conspicuous one -- that toggles the color scheme. It's trivial to add such a button. It doesn't need to be tied to a user ID; it doesn't even need to set a cookie. The fact that no such button exists is a choice someone made, a poor choice that disregards decades of human-machine interface research. Failure to go full Karen about goofy things like this has made the Web a little worse for almost everyone in one way or another. So... there ya go.
          • stephen_g 1y ago
            Preferences shows up in the sidebar (that has the login and signup buttons) if you have an account. Otherwise it's up to the instance admin to choose the default.
            • wasmitnetzen 1y ago
              And the admin should probably use the automatic setting. There is a feature request for a user preference when not logged in.[1] [1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30193 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30193
          • ekjhgkejhgk 1y ago
            I'm on two instances and both have a Preferences button. Is it possible that your instance moved it away from the default place? What instance are you on, I can help you find what you need to click.
            • CamperBob2 1y ago
              It's the link in the article. But I'm diverting the thread at this point and arguably making this a worse place by doing so. The other replies indicate that the question has been raised and is under consideration, which is all I can ask given that I'm not prepared to jump on Github and send them a PR myself. Thanks for your reply and the rest of the input people have offered!
    • da_chicken 1y ago
      Which puts it one up over Hacker News!
• ekjhgkejhgk 1y ago
  Well, I won't debate whether "cool" is the right word. But ideologically I think federation is better than centralization when it can be made to work in practical terms, and Mastodon works.
• throw_await 1y ago
  No "algorithm" shoving ads down your throat. Just a timeline of the accounts you follow with the posts in chronooogical order.