For the first time ever, I’m getting Reddit notifications, outside of when I get a dm or a comment/post reply from someone. 🧐 Hmm, I wonder if that’s just coincidence…

Anyone else? Or just me?

  • lackadaisy@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    I know when I had mostly stopped engaging with facebook, it started giving me absurd notifications, like “someone you don’t know posted something in a group you never check.” It starts looking kind of desperate.

    • BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I used to be on Facebook Dating, when I go awhile without logging in to facebook, it seems to remember that I was on it and starts telling me about potential matches with photos that seem to slowly get more attractive.

    • asjmcguire@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I hated that. “X posted a photo that is getting attention” and? Good for them, why do they need me to look if it’s already getting attention… 🙄

  • sejoki@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    Did you install the official Reddit app? Same happened to me when I did. They seem to enable notifications for recommended posts once you log in. I turned that shit off and deleted the app. I don’t want any settings changed by the mere act of logging in somewhere.

    • Aviandelight@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I used the official app on my phone and I had turned all notifications off. I left for good before the black out and never looked back. Then miraculously a week after the blackout the app turned on notifications and started spamming my phone. I deleted that shit immediately.

      • asjmcguire@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Which is exactly what Twitter did. Even with all notifications off, I still received several daily tweets about what Elon had tweeted. So I uninstalled it. Thankfully the PWA isn’t quite as bad, but it still pesters me with tweets that it knows I’m more likely to engage with, because they are negative.