Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
It doesn’t default to dark mode, it defaults to the system setting. It’s light on my device.
Which any self respecting site should be doing either way, it’s not difficult to implement, at all.