OkazuYuriDec 18, 2022

Among all the other bits of advice people are sharing about using #mastodon, let me give you the most important piece of advice from 30 years of being on online platforms.

**Turn off notifications.**

Turn them off for email, for your phone, for your toolbar.

Nothing is that important. It doesn't matter if your post went viral. You'll find out when you choose to look.

I promise you, it will vastly improve your day to not have "ping" from your phone all the time.

Show threadKen Brucker

@EricaFriedman Would drive me nuts when Twitter would put up a prompt to turn on notifications. If I wanted them on, I’d turn them on. I don’t need it prompting me several times a month to enable notifications.

The other reason to turn off things like email notifications… If you are screen sharing or presenting, do you really want the beginning of incoming emails being displayed for all to see?

Dec 18, 2022 at 4:44pmWeb