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The valuelessness of Reddit upvotes made Reddit create notifications when your post / comment gets upvoted

https://sopuli.xyz/post/1254201

The valuelessness of Reddit upvotes made Reddit create notifications when your post / comment gets upvoted - Sopuli

… but Lemmy doesn’t.

Jul 13, 2023 at 8:10amWeb
Show threadWarmSodaJul 13, 2023
Which app did that? I only got notifications when someone replied to a comment/post I made.
Show threadmizuJul 13, 2023
On the official app you would get notifications at certain milestones (1 upvote, 5 upvotes, 10 upvotes, 20 upvotes, 1000 upvotes, etc.).
Show threadWarmSodaJul 13, 2023
Ah gotcha. Thanks
Show threadnothendevJul 13, 2023

I think that was in Reddit itself, not any app. You know, apps just display notifications, and reddit creates them.

And yeah, as another user noted, this happened at different “milestones” like 1, 5, 10, 20 etc.

Show threadWarmSodaJul 13, 2023
Nah it definitely was not just a reddit itself thing.
Show threadWalrusDragonOnABikeJul 13, 2023
Reddit would send notifications to your reddit inbox even on desktop. Don't remember getting any for 1-20 though. If hadn't viewed the old notification, you wouldn't get the notification for the milestone.
Show threadwandermindJul 13, 2023
It was a New Reddit/official app thing
Show threadDrQuintJul 13, 2023
The “official app” experience is not everyone’s experience tho. Of course several people say theirs didn’t change, but they were accepting shit anyways.
Show threadastropenguin5Jul 13, 2023
I believe you could also turn off vote notifications, I did im pretty sure. And you could also turn of replies too.
Show threadlocness3Jul 13, 2023

Also do you mean notifications in the notifications section of the app or push notifications to your phone?

Both

Show threadastropenguin5Jul 13, 2023

I know you can for sure turn off push notifications, they actually had decent customization for that.

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I forget if these are for push notifs or inbox or both

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Show threadNumbersCanBeFunJul 13, 2023

I usually disabled comment notifications on posts. Especially if I post something around the time I go to work. I can just go into the thread and reply to the comments I want to reply too.

Also there was some sort of dread that became associated with comment notifications for me. Every time I would open up my notifications I would think “what asshole is picking a right now?”. 9/10 my thinking would be correct.

The Fediverse has these same people but the difference is that I just stopped giving a fuck. If you straight up don’t reply than the bullshit stops dead in its tracks.

Show threadburntbutterbiscuitsJul 13, 2023
You don’t even know what you’re talking about!
Show threadNumbersCanBeFunJul 14, 2023
I got a good chuckle out of this one.