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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by Swizec on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:35AM (#48309552)
Oh I’m on essentially permanent 2nd tier oncall and occasionally 1st tier. Pagerduty has an exception configured. If you message me on slack it shows up on my home screen and I will probably notice in the next 15 minutes or so.

I find polling less disruptive because my phone or watch are almost always nearby. Being in control of when to get interrupted feels better than having stuff constantly pop up while you’re doing something.

Just holding my partner’s phone spikes my cortizol. You try to type 2 sentences and get 5 notifications for random other apps and messages popping up on screen in the meantime. Literally one notification every 10 seconds on average. It’s horrible

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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by bossyTeacher on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:02PM (#48311916)
You know it is not a binary option, right? You can select what apps you want notifications from and most apps have at least two types of notifications you can toggle.
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