I limit mine to messages and calls because I don’t like the distraction of tons of notifications. Curious what others do
None at all. My phone is for looking up things, and for looking at pictures that make me happy. I don’t need notifications for either of those, lol.
Phone
SMS/MMS
Family Link
That’s it. Everything else can wait till I open it up.
The only thing that’s allowed to notify me is my pager for work
wait, you guys are blocking notifications? Are you allowed to do that??? /j
Bluesky, usually I’m having very pleasant conversation over there so it’s usually nice.
I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it’s abused it’s never getting it back
I only use FOSS apps, so never had to block any apps from sending notifications.
I’m sure FOSS apps are less intrusive, but they still use notifications surely? I’d generally want a calendar or messager app to send me notifications, but I might want to block a specific app depending on my use case.
Well, I don’t know what we’re counting here. Generally, if FOSS apps have notifications which one might perceive as annoying, they’ll have a checkbox in the in-app settings, so I don’t need to *block* them.
There is one scenario, where I’ve blocked notifications, which is when an app wants to run in the background, then it has to put up a permanent notification. I hadn’t counted that, since that’s an Android requirement.Aside from that, IMHO it’s pretty clear-cut whether notifications are either necessary or subjective or not a good idea, so apps with user interests in mind can get that right quite well.
Okay, that makes sense. I took OP’s question to be about what notifications you use/want and which you turn off. They describe allowing only calls and messages, and were asking what else people permitted. E.g. I don’t allow my lemmy app to notify me about replies, but I’m sure some people do.
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Other than the necessities, the one app I allow notifications for is the C-SPAN app. They send maybe 1 notification a week for something like a live presidential address on a news event.
Anything that might create excessive notifications (social media/news) I use as a web app on top of not enabling notifications.
Only texts and calls are audible notifications. Everything else is slient.
I allow notifications from my email provider, my bank, and IMs - although I disable group notifications. Everything else is prohibited.
No
Phone and text. Everything else can fuck off
Text messages, phone calls, security cameras, financial alerts, and a game discord (only server and game news specifically).
(edited to clarify)
Cameras?
Security cameras. My bad.
Ah that makes much more sense. Cheers!
Been trying to decide on what to allow on my computer/home server.
But on my phone I allow texts, emails (don’t get many of them), discord (dms and certain chats), phone, and that is probably it. So just communication applications.
Only apps where I NEED to potentially respond to something. So texts, phone calls, alarm system, Snapchat (but only specific people/groups) and the pager app I use for volunteering at my local hospitals. Everything else, turned off.
