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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • No Ads

    If a notification sends me an ad, I will block the app and also review whether I even need it. Anyone willing to shovel ads at me in my notifications is not my friend.

    Other stuff is simple:

    • If I need to know the information right away I allow a notification. Stuff like calls, messages, server monitoring, security, etc. Notifications that only fire when actively using or just after using an app also get to stay on if they are useful.
    • If it’s not urgent, I set a reminder in my to do list to review it on a recurring basis, for example “check Mastadon, weekly, Saturday”

    Follow up question: how do you handle apps that have persistent notifications?



  • The local aspect isn’t there for most of us.

    As a somewhat regular user of the Colorado outdoors, I hope we get a Colorado Hike & Bike community. I know there’s at least a few of us because we’ve discussed Denver biking in the fuckcars community before.

    As far as finding replacements, my advice is don’t limit yourself by platform when finding equivalents, but focus on the quality and type of the community.

    To clarify,

    Early on I kind of mapped centralized and federated social media pairs, Reddit-Lemmy, Facebook-Diaspora, Twitter-Mastadon, etc.

    Turns out, that was a limiting mindset.

    The best basket-weaving group might be a Mastadon hashtag. The best Lego minifigure painting content might be on Pixtagram, and we all know he best place to ask a question is not askreddit, but asklemmy!