Smartphones Aren’t Evil, Notifications Are – Audio Valentine
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  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    2 months ago

    Preach. Nothing on my phone is allowed to show me notifications except emails to my main address (which are likely to actually be important and not spam), calls, texts, and a select few Discord channels.

    Everyone and everything else can fuck off until I get around to them, which includes my work email inbox.

    I am continually disgusted by then number of apps that are not communications related insist on trying to push notifications into your stack all the time. Especially mobile games. That shit can fuck right off.

    • AssaultPepper@monero.townEnglish
      222·
      2 months ago

      I can’t think of any app that’s not FOSS that doesn’t ask for permission to send notifications.

      They drive engagement at the cost of your sanity 🫠

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I’m a caregiver for my mom, so I work in the home. I turned off all notifications. Texts, calls, all of it. If I leave the house, I’ll unmute so I know if she calls me, because she may need actual help with something, but even then, it’s literally just her on Whatsapp that goes through, nothing else.

      I’ve never felt like I had a healthier relationship with my phone. I tend to scroll a little too much on Lemmy, watch too many YouTube shorts in the bathroom or while I’m cooking, but other than that, I feel like a normal human again for the first time since ~2010

    • PeroBasta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Lol. I just get notification for calls, and evend the calls are limited during my working hours so that only my SO, Brother and parents can call me.

      Messaging apps are all muted and zero notification, i anyway open then every time i check my phone.

      Emails are especially blocked since if you send me an e-mail you dont really need me

    • chevy9294@monero.townEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I don’t have Google Play services on my phone and I don’t get notifications from any app that doesn’t support unified push. So I get only calls, texts and signal.

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    Notifications are bad, but the constant dopamine stimulation of having 24/7 access to stuff like Facebook and TikTok is also bad without notifications.

    • orl0pl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      That’s why free will is not enough. You need to set yourself limits or completely uninstall distracting apps. You can get used to it

  • bradboimler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    At the moment I get a new notification I decide if it’s useful. If it isn’t, the category gets turned off.

    My bar for apps is also extremely high. I don’t get the notifications if the app isn’t installed.

    • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I think that’s the intended way to use notifications. If it is there sitting in your status bar it should be because you need to be reminded to do something about it.

      Otherwise it’s the equivalent of leaving your mail strewn on your dinner table permanently, junk mail and all.

      I am starting to uninstall all apps that have websites anyways… not everything needs to be an app