Hi guys curious if in the past with reddit did you use push notifications (via first party app, 3rd party apps, or desktop).

Do you wish it could be expanded to Lemmy?

Or do you think push is to addicting/bad?

Curious on your thoughts

  • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Personally I wish they’d never been invented, I don’t let any apps send me notifications other than chat apps and even then with no sound and all group chats are muted permanently. I can’t stand the constant ping of apps trying to get you to engage with them, I want to engage on my schedule not anyone else’s especially some Silicon Valley product manager’s. Even in this much quieter state not having my phone feels exactly like not having my baccy felt when I used to smoke, until I got into the Fediverse I was tempted to pull the plaster off entirely and throw it in the sea.

    I’m also a bitter and cynical software engineer who should under no circumstances be consulted for UX advice, so it’s probably wise for Lemmy to implement them.

    • Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I mostly never had many group chats (aside from family) so I kinda doged the issue for the most part. That being said I can under stand the annoyence/expectation of having to reply immediatly (I have read reciets turned of in many chat apps with certain exclusions).

      As per lemmy they are kinda in a back in forth on enabling it since push notifications would typically rely on google firebase messaging or apples push notification service (for power effeciency purposes). Catch22 is it could go against foss/privacy.

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631