Side question: Have you or anyone you’ve known “rang the bell” on content on youtube, twitch, etc? For how many channels?

I have, but only for a few channels I really care about which produce high quality videos and don’t upload very often (like every few weeks at most).

Messages.

• Messages from friends, partner and family.
• Emails about package arrivals.
• Servers going down.

Everything else only comes in once per day at a specific time.

All off except for texts, calls, voicemail, and like 2 other apps - discord messages or mentions (very limited, most servers I join get completely muted), and birdbuddy for most of the year until they start blowing up my phone with ads about their stupid Kickstarter, then it gets turned off.

I can’t stand unnecessary notifications. It pisses me off.

I have all notifications turned off except for calls and texts. I tried the bell thing on for every channel i subscribed to on youtube it was absolutely hell. Thats what made me turn it all off in the first place. Every minute there was something new. And since notifications were on i’d also get those unnecessary shit that apps thought I needed to know right this second. Ever since i turned all notifications off my life has been so calm. Especially getting rid of the bubbles on app was so liberating.

Just a bunch of NTFY notifications for various checks on my self hosted services and signal for the fam.

Yeah I have a script that just archives all old/recent content from people that refuse to leave YouTube (looking at you Black Liberation Media and Diallo Kenyatta). That’s the extent of my ring the bell

I’m angry enough that people made me get a smart phone, I’m not gonna actually use it like one. All off.

Alarms, calls, and messages only.

I find the yt problem pretty easy. I’ve disabled all yt notifications and once or twice a day, I open the app, check my subscriptions and watch videos I care about. Easy

Not many. My phone is typically on Do not Disturb when I’m not working, and a custom focus mode I call Deep Work when I am working. The primary difference just being focus filters so I can use the same calendar/email app I like but not see anything work related outside regular work hours. I’ll check in on my notifications somewhat regularly, but basically nothing can actually ping me.

Mainly just notifications from app stores like Google Play, F-Droid and Nutaku. I do occasionally receive notifications from other apps such as Google Opinion Rewards and Proton Mail. Then very rarely, I do also receive calls and texts but it’s mostly just scams and otherwise unknown numbers.

As for your side question, I used to because it used to be useful. Several years ago, Google broke YouTube’s email notifications and refused to fix it. Then at some point, they acted like no one wanted them and just removed them. Luckly, RSS feeds still work, YouTube doesn’t tell you they exist but they do.

Alarms, calls, emails, messages, discord direct messages, my habit tracker, and my mood tracker. The latter two are just once a day though, not too bad.

Email + calendar, slack, security camera alerts, and a couple of messenger apps.

Email and IRC push notifications through The Lounge. The rest is disabled. Even amber alerts, because my government uses them for everything. It’s “illegal” to disable them here but with a few commands on adb its possible to disable the service and never have to hear that end of the world alarm for an elderly person missing 200 km away from me.

only texts, alarms, the lojack on my kid’s smartwatch, and my walking / health apps

no emails, calls, voicemails, other games, or social media under normal circumstances

I turn notifications for email and calls back on when I’m job hunting and around the holidays