more adventures on rednote mostly because itā€™s entertaining how mad people get when i talk about it :3 /halfjoke

this was posted 12/31 btw so i donā€™t think ā€œthe mods havenā€™t gotten to it yetā€ is a real thing

#le is common in parallel to the anglosphereā€™s #wlw which i think is adorable

my number one qualm with little red book so far is there is no native translation like tiktok has. lots of google translate is necessary to get the social media to social :P

necessary disclaimer: fuck the CCP and all the real violence and repression they do. just want to give credit given where due, and so far here im just seeing a lot of assumptions with no evidence? so im gonna post what my experience is :) i welcome all to do the same

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Yup. Wish there could be a migration to an actually decent open platform but weā€™re all hung up with underfunding and personal qualms getting in the way. ā€œI wonā€™t use PixelFed because it doesnā€™t have a dark modeā€ is a literal comment I have seen from a Lemmy user.

Ridiculous patterns of behavior on both sides šŸ˜­

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Other people arenā€™t going to RedNote for political reasons. Iā€™m not going to RedNote because I was never into TikTok.

Iā€™m barely into YouTube, and I have no desire to jump back into short form algorithm driven stuff after a decade away from that noise. Deleting most socials as teen was the correct move. I only missed out on connecting with people I already knew.

Feeds are the bane of my existence. I donā€™t even look at my Lemmy feed. Instead, I check on individual communities and sort by new. Communities being smaller is an advantage for me.

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based <3

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Yeah, I canā€™t stand feeds and short form videos either, it feels like I am dumber after watching just a little bit of them.

I do watch a lot of YouTube though, there are really great creators in lots of niche communities, there is also a lot of slop and crap, but it can be avoided, at least for now, although Google is slowly driving me up the wall with some of their stupid decisions that make no sense, even they arenā€™t benefiting from them.

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Google drives me up a wall with their search engine the most. AI bs to hide the fact that SEO and paid promotions make it hard to find anything anymore šŸ˜’

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I wanted to sign up for pixelfed but now finding out thereā€™s no dark mode makes me not want to.

Please understand that some of us with neurodivergence canā€™t handle light mode, itā€™s too straining on the eyes and physically hurts.

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iOS has had smart invert capabilities for several years now.

On Android itā€™s trivial to install a dark mode browser extension and I think some versions also have smart invert too.

I canā€™t tell if you are being sarcastic;* I absolutely understand the plight but there have been tools to support you using any app without a native dark mode. If having to change a couple settings is more of a turn-off for people than the privacy nightmare thatā€™s every corporate appā€¦ well I think that exposes your priorities pretty well.

(*edit: apologies, you were being sincere. i have seen people use similar language to be hateful and ableist on the internet so i felt the need to cover all my bases but now that i know you were being genuine i retract that.)

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I canā€™t tell if you are being sarcastic; I absolutely understand the plight but there have been tools to support you using any app without a native dark mode. If having to change a couple settings is more of a turn-off for people than the privacy nightmare thatā€™s every corporate appā€¦ well I think that exposes your priorities pretty well.

Iā€™m unaware of these features as Iā€™m used to setting dark mode in each app but your overall comment reeks of ableism - I am neurodivergent, and I have to use my phone in dark mode. I had a TBI as a teenager leading to permanent light sensitivity and migraines and Iā€™m also on the spectrum.

Also Iā€™m banned from Instagram, so no, itā€™s not about priorities and even if it were, accessibility comes first.

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how can they not use 3rd party apps???

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excellent question. Vernissage has a dark mode and it looks great.

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i use pixelcat (or have since my instance seemingly shutdown and cleared all log-inā€™s and came back?)

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