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Currently on an enjoyable journey of de-googling, upping privacy, data sovereignty and so on.
Apps that do this just get it.
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- ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish52 minutes
My partner recently decided to be privacy conscious specifically to spite me.
They responded positively to my desire to move back to signal for texting (used it when i was on android because iOS enforced a delay that caused messages to receive out of order), but decided to be shitty about it and punish me by deactivating all notifications including just name. Im the only one they talk to on it. So now I have to wait for them to get around to viewing my messages whenever their reminder goes off to check it.
Like… that kind of defeats the purpose of moving communications over if i have to send them a text through imessage to tell them to check signal (they talked me into an iphone “for privacy” and it has been an absolute nightmare)
Meanwhile I have always had all notifications disabled or set to minimum, simply because notifications bug the hell out of me and i don’t want them for any reason that isn’t urgent, and they have constant app notifications. “IT security specialist” my asshole.
- sompreno@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
I mean considering lemmy is public information and messages are unencrypted…
- 4 hours
But I know that and choose to make public statements. Plus, there are ways to be anonymous-ish about it still
- sompreno@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
True, but my comment was about how it was irrelevant that voyager doesn’t allow tracking through notifications when Lemmy is inherently insecure. Although in an open communication like Lemmy the insecurity doesn’t matter as much.
- 10 hours
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.
- 4 hours
I agree completely and believe it’s an issue for people with disabilities too. Hopefully more and more people are taking notice and speaking out. I bet good videos help raise awareness too!
8 hoursno it doesnt get it, i actually tried to turn it on but they dont have the option :/
notifications off by default is good tho
- 9 hours
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 exultation, etc.
- irate944@piefed.socialEnglish12 hours
I jumped on their github page and skimmed a few issues, and found this: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1027
It looks like they just need to figure out a couple of issues before they implement notifications, so it might happen someday. But taking into account how old these issues are, it’s not their priority.
- 11 hours
You’d still be able to just leave it turned off. It’s quite peaceful to lemmy without.
While I am still trying to wean off reddit, seeing the equivalent mail icon light up on threadiverse does not entail dread like on reddit
At least for now since I’ve only been replying to whimsical, silly etc. posts and comments lol
- 11 hours
Been using Voyager since it was called Wefwef for both mobile and desktop Lemmy, love it.
- 4 hours
Wow same here, had actually forgotten it used to be called WefWef until you mentioned it.
- 8 hours
I don’t even bother with most apps anymore unless I have to. I use the Photon UI, so https://p.lazysoci.al/ or https://photon.lemmy.world/
- 5 hours
Can you tell me more about that? I was able to see this thread on those links but not familiar with Photon. I searched a bit but a few different techie things came up.
You had me at “don’t even bother with most apps any more…” 😁
- 3 hours
The alternative frontends need to be added to a Lemmy server by the admins so not everywhere has them. Lemmy.world has quite a few though which are listed in the sidebar.
- 11 hours
I’m still not sure if those are a second pair of whiskers, or if it’s a Wallace & Gromit style mouth
- TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish11 hours
Is this the app that costs money, or was that a different one? I always forget.
@TachyonTele Voyager was free last I checked, and I havent seen any non-free lemmy apps?
- TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish11 hours
There’s one that costs money and hasnt been updated in years. I can remember it’s name though. It was a big deal when it came out.
Sync for Lemmy has a paid version that gets rid of ads. Its developer was one of the most vocal when Reddit started charging developers for access to their API. Sync for Reddit was one of the most popular third-party Reddit apps before then.
Its developer is also absent all the time. They poke their head in every few months, fix a bunch of problems, then disappear into the nether for an indeterminate amount of time.
I actually switched to Voyager because I was annoyed at how difficult it was to get anything fixed on Sync. And of course, Voyager is free.
- TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish10 hours
That’s right it’s sync! Yup that’s exactly the one i was thinking of. Thanks
- 10 hours
Voyager is donations only. I donate to it every time a thread like this comes up in the wild.
- TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish10 hours
Yeah, and that’s completely fine. There’s nothing wrong with donations.
