There's de-googling and privacy and all....thats all great. But it is a completely separate thing to take back attention from distractions, bullshit notifications and letting tech overlords reach into our daily lives and disrupting our focus and attention whenever they feel like it. Notification real estate is hugely valuable and the default for every app should be "off", with further fine tuning as needed. Better bulk settings are needed for notification settings adjustment.

Technology Connections has done a brilliant video about notifications recently.

@aeharding@vger.social is a local hero

I can’t emphasize how important it is for you to control your phone, especially notifications. Every notification is literally a mind hijacking attempt. Regardless of the type of notification, it’s something that disrupts our thinking and our flow.

Some of them are necessary—but most aren’t.

All the native apps will of course try to get as much permission from you as possible, including notifications. Don’t allow this permission freely.

Get really strict about which apps need to send you notifications, and when. Take it from a dude who used to give free reign to all apps for notifications.

Once I started thinking in a more digitally minimalistic way, it made a huge difference.

Running GrapheneOS actually helped with this a lot. But you don’t need GOS to do this and feel the difference.

I got some notifications turned on, but most of em are silent. So they still get delivered, but they’re not time-sensitive. They’ll be there when I check my phone next. I don’t need em interrupting whatever I was doing or thinking.

TL;DR: Be strict about which notifications you allow, and when. It’ll do wonders for your thinking, productivity, and mental health.

Been using Voyager since it was called Wefwef for both mobile and desktop Lemmy, love it.

I too disable notifications on all my news sources. They are reserved for personal connections only.

My dad on the other hand, often doesn't see my messages, because he has always the notification stack full and doesn't notice the new ones. Same in E-Mail inbox.

And can we please outlaw pre-selected newsletters? They are annoying anyway, if you don't actively choose them.

That really is nice, right? I also like when my apps have no mechanism to connect to the internet, so you don't have to worry about trackers, data exfiltration, etc.

I’m using voyager right now and I love it.

I mean considering lemmy is public information and messages are unencrypted...

Installed Lineage 4 months ago. My phone uptime is 4 months.

no it doesnt get it, i actually tried to turn it on but they dont have the option :/

notifications off by default is good tho

Lemmy also doesn't support unifiedpush so it's impractical to send notifications lol

I'm still not sure if those are a second pair of whiskers, or if it's a Wallace & Gromit style mouth