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Surprising constructive discussion or did I clumsily step on someone's ego again?
I do, and not only on Lemmy, but also Whatsapp, Teams, email etc. It's the fear of screwing up and/or missing out, and a wave of anxiety combs over me when I see a number >0. I've been talking with my therapist about it, there are reasons and methods to overcome this...
Same here - any notification, for anything, my immediate assumption is that it's someone who (rightly or wrongly) is angry with me or has bad news, or whatever. It's fucking exhausting.
I feel you.
Teams is hell, on a job we had all teams having their channels (so like 30?) and you were "supposed to follow them" but they churned out hundreds and hundreds of messages every week, add your own channel and emails and gasp your work... So productive.
Wow! Anything above zero? That must be agonizing. At work, I get lots of Teams messages, but I don’t find that so crippling. It’s just social media stuff like Lemmy where I have such mixed feelings about the numbers.
Oh, and sorry for the reply. Hope you can handle it. Here, have some flowers to cheer you up. 💐
Haha, thanks :)
Well, I don't use any social media (besides Lemmy), so that helps :) There are a couple of Whatsapp group chats where I rarely participate, but I muted those, so I don't get any alerts.
Most of the time it's about owls or art cause that's what I tend to reply to.
LOL. So, I take it you never mark any of them read. I mean, that's one way to fix the problem, sure.
No. It means I made the imaginary internet points number that no one cares for go up.
Never look at my inbox. Not once.
Nope. I just go in periodically and click the button to mark all as read. The button doesn't actually verify that I've read them, basically just takes my word for it and then makes the number go away ... kind of in the Lemmy way where it might go away for a second, come back a minute later, go away again for awhile, then come back again for a bit, and then finally truly go away long term, permanently.
Joking aside, I get way too much hostility here on Lemmy for what amounts to making stupid boomer-style jokes and sharing personal anecdotes, so I don't even bother reading replies in my inbox anymore. I find my time on Lemmy is much more cathartic and enjoyable this way. Sadly, that does mean I probably miss out on some discussions or responses to questions I've asked, but at least I don't generally ever even see the nastiness and negativity towards me when I'm just here for a mostly light-hearted break from reality. And that works for me. After all, haters gonna hate, don't mean I gotta participate.
Let me guess, you throw those light-hearted boomer jokes in political threads. I prefer to avoid places like that, since they bring me no happiness. For me, the web is a place to chill, a balancing force to the dull reality of normal life. Sticking with nicer places makes the web serve my purposes.
Anyway, that's yet another very interesting way to use Lemmy and its inbox. I'm learning so much from people in this thread, so thanks for opening my eyes. If I had kept my mouth shut, expecting everyone to use Lemmy the way I do, I would never have found out.
I've never experienced that. I can't imagine it would worry me either way though. The internet isn't real life. It literally doesn't matter. I'd have as much concern as if I saw unread notifications in a video game.
I only clear my inbox every few months, I like to see how big I can get the number
That is very interesting. Talking to people about weird things like this shows me that we use the same tools in very different ways. For example, many people prefer to look at the "all" feed and filter it with an ever expanding black list. I do the exact opposite, which is to use a reasonably short white list. Just ignore the "all" feed for the most part, focus more on the "subscribed" feed, and you get what you want.
Now I can see that people don't even use the notification inbox the same way. If there's an alternate way to do things, some people are going to do it that way.
No, because I don’t give a shit if people don’t like what I have to say and decide to be petulant about it.
Last week this happened!
I didn't remember writing the post, nothing offensive I was just asking about good boardgames to play drunk. It was bit surprising seeing the notifications.
Now I want to see that thread, you must have got some beauties.
What was the top suggestion?
God, so much this, and thinking you are crazy for thinking that while also knowing on surface level, a lot of other people feel the same way
At 324 and going, I don't think I care much. I just don't interact with many, and don't mark read without interacting. So they remain
That's an interesting strategy. Looks like we are using the inbox in very different ways.
It tingles my nervea
At worst it's bunch of strangers on the other side of the world saying mean things to a person they know nothing about. I might lose a small part of the little faith I have left in humanity but I take none of it personally.
Occasionally. Then I tell myself that screwing up on the internet, and especially Lemmy is basically, “Oh no! Anyway…” Most people wasn’t remember your username 5 minutes after they rage at you, if they ever read it to begin with. And no one knows who you are in real life of course. That said, I do still feel like an idiot when someone takes issue with something I said that I wasn’t necessarily certain was the right thing to say, or that agreed with popular sentiment. It doesn’t always work for making my monkey brain feel better, but it usually works at least somewhat.
i get dopamine.
No.
Unless it's going to be full of assholes with shitty replies for me to block from, then it's a chore.
