Notifications are actually very important for people who treat platforms interchangeably.
How so? At least, I don’t think that they’re important to Lemmy, as it’s not about real-time person-to-person communication, but rather discussion about topics.
It should probably facilitate discussions then 🤯 you can just silence & deprioritize notifications. The point is having it all in a unified feed. RSS does that well, but adding the RSS notifs of important shit + messages is helpful.
People often need to continue conversations to clarify information & elaborate… I can’t believe I’m saying something this obvious. Shades of Mastodon users justifying suicidal design choices that were later rolled back here.
Nice ad for one of the apps that constantly pushes instances in the World (which blocks VPNs, nice privacy dumbasses!) social graph in multiple interfaces that are not adaptive to user experience
If you encounter an issue where you cannot post or comment, but voting is functioning correctly, it is most likely because we have implemented a block for VPN & Tor users.
Specifically allowing VPN voting 🤔 what a curious choice. Lemmy.world users are so stupid that they don’t even see the difference between having an anonymous account & having their IP scraped by random former Reddit mods. Raised in a barn, perhaps?
I’m not sure what the correct terms are, so I’ll refer to in-app/in-client notifications as internal notifications and mobile-style out-of-app notifications as external notifications.
Based on what people usually refer to with the word “notification” in the context of social applications and messaging services, and your comment, I’m assuming you’re talking about external notifications. If you mean all notifications in general, I’ve misunderstood your point and can ignore the rest of this comment. I do think that internal notifications are useful.
I’m not saying that external notifications are useless, but rather that I don’t feel that they’re as important as you seem to make it out to be.
Also, even if your Lemmy client doesn’t support external notifications, Lemmy supports RSS, which you can subscribe to with a different application.
It should probably facilitate discussions then
Discussions do not have to be between only two people, others can continue where someone else left off.
People often need to continue conversations to clarify information & elaborate…
This is true, but it doesn’t require notifications outside of the client. For example, I noticed your reply as Lemmy’s web UI showed that I had an unread message.
I don’t mind continuing a discussion over multiple days, though I’m not sure if this applies to everyone.
Shades of Mastodon users justifying suicidal design choices that were later rolled back here.
Could you elaborate? I don’t use Mastodon, as I don’t see the value in “micro-blogging” and prefer to follow topics rather than people.
As for the rest of your comment, I too disagree with blocking VPNs & Tor to fix their CSAM problem, but I don’t see how that is relevant to this discussion? Though I do not mind if you want to discuss that instead.
How so? At least, I don’t think that they’re important to Lemmy, as it’s not about real-time person-to-person communication, but rather discussion about topics.
It should probably facilitate discussions then 🤯 you can just silence & deprioritize notifications. The point is having it all in a unified feed. RSS does that well, but adding the RSS notifs of important shit + messages is helpful.
People often need to continue conversations to clarify information & elaborate… I can’t believe I’m saying something this obvious. Shades of Mastodon users justifying suicidal design choices that were later rolled back here.
Nice ad for one of the apps that constantly pushes instances in the World (which blocks VPNs, nice privacy dumbasses!) social graph in multiple interfaces that are not adaptive to user experience
https://lemmy.world/post/11967676
Specifically allowing VPN voting 🤔 what a curious choice. Lemmy.world users are so stupid that they don’t even see the difference between having an anonymous account & having their IP scraped by random former Reddit mods. Raised in a barn, perhaps?
I’m not sure what the correct terms are, so I’ll refer to in-app/in-client notifications as internal notifications and mobile-style out-of-app notifications as external notifications.
Based on what people usually refer to with the word “notification” in the context of social applications and messaging services, and your comment, I’m assuming you’re talking about external notifications. If you mean all notifications in general, I’ve misunderstood your point and can ignore the rest of this comment. I do think that internal notifications are useful.
I’m not saying that external notifications are useless, but rather that I don’t feel that they’re as important as you seem to make it out to be.
Also, even if your Lemmy client doesn’t support external notifications, Lemmy supports RSS, which you can subscribe to with a different application.
Discussions do not have to be between only two people, others can continue where someone else left off.
This is true, but it doesn’t require notifications outside of the client. For example, I noticed your reply as Lemmy’s web UI showed that I had an unread message.
I don’t mind continuing a discussion over multiple days, though I’m not sure if this applies to everyone.
Could you elaborate? I don’t use Mastodon, as I don’t see the value in “micro-blogging” and prefer to follow topics rather than people.
As for the rest of your comment, I too disagree with blocking VPNs & Tor to fix their CSAM problem, but I don’t see how that is relevant to this discussion? Though I do not mind if you want to discuss that instead.