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one of the reasons I don't have mobile notifications for fedi is that it is easier for me to disconnect and log off from fedi if needed.

sometimes social media as it exists now will put you in negative feedback loop that only way to exit is to log the fuck out and go touch grass (whatever that means for you)

the only fedi related notifications I get on my phone are reports and notifications from my monitoring systems to let me know if the Ten Forward servers are down

honestly I'm legit considering deleting Ivory off my phone too and just use the web interface but also at the same time using the Mastodon web interface on mobile sucks ass

current social media design paradigms can really feed our worst impulses in ways that I don't think we fully understand yet

maybe Mastodon by default broadcasting your posts to possibly hundreds of thousands of people is a bad idea [this is referring to posts with "public" visibility that are on the federated timeline]

P. S - I hope people don't misconstrue this thread as a "social media bad" thread, that's not what I'm saying.

I don't know how much credence I give to the concept of the Dunbar's number [0] because it reeks of evolutionary psychology and a lot of evo psych is just bullshit

but also at the same time, public broadcast social media seems to be a Bad Idea in general

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

I do think that humans have some kind of upper bound on how many stable social relationships we can maintain but I don't think we can put any sort of number value on it with any level of certainty

because I think its too variable from human to human and depends on a whole lot of factors

[ there is also the argument here that some social media relationships don't count as what the concept refers to as "stable social relationships" and are more parasocial. ]