"Dark mode" which is so popular on #Mastodon, is extremely difficult -- even painful -- for many people with astigmatism and other common vision issues. Just sayin'.
@lauren Mastodon creates a use case for something we don't really have in the web spec yet (as far as I can think of): user-volunteered global settings.
I want to be able to tell every Mastodon node "I prefer light mode." Heck, I also want to be able to tell them "This is my home node" so I don't have to do the tapdance of entering my domain every time I want to do something while viewing someone's timeline local to their server. But all of those desires clash with the need to not leak information without user consent.
... so couple that desire with three tiers of data-vending ('never', 'with manual confirmation', 'automatically') and, hey, there's the makings of an RFC there.
@mark @lauren https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
There sort of is something like that in the spec, although I'm not sure how widely honored this setting is, or how accessible it is to users.
