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Or if your phone supports notification badges on icons, just place their icons on home screen and you'll notice what app has updates by just checking the badge counts.
Why do you have to check anything manually? Just install their apps and receive push notifications for them. You can also make the notifications silent to reduce distractions. Or if your phone supports notification badges on icons, just place their icons on home screen and you'll notice what app has updates by just checking the badge counts.
I personally use Matrix and bridge all my social accounts to there. It works super well, because my friends don't have to switch their app, but I see everyone in just one app. matrix.org/bridges
Worth mentioning: https://www.beeper.com/ Essentially a Matrix-powered service focused on bringing a ton of inboxes. I've heard it's great, but never tried it myself.
Why do you have to check anything manually? Just install their apps and receive push notifications for them. You can also make the notifications silent to reduce distractions. Or if your phone supports notification badges on icons, just place their icons on home screen and you'll notice what app has updates by just checking the badge counts.
And receive unrelated spam? No thanks. While emails and texts are fine, I 100% would not trust linked in with push notifications
I'm on email. If you want to be my friend, use open standards. If you want to reach me, use email.
No, you can't reach me on Facebook or WhatsApp. If you DM me on Twitter, I will say please email me.
just stop using all of those apps - done. Pick 2-3 and cut the rest.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP's point is clearly to stay connected with his friends etc. So simply stopping isn't solving the problem.
OK, what's your solution? Users of all of those apps necessarily need a phone and/or email. The apps aren't necessary. You can just email or SMS for literally all of 'em. Either you stop using them or just deal with it. How many people on here regularly use 7+ different messaging apps for their friends? In my experience people usually use one for work, and maybe 2-3 tops for personal life.
I have a personal inbox (Fastmail), three Google Suites/Apps for various companies I'm involved with, a personal Gmail (for mostly spam). That does not include any chats (mostly personal, but also some work: WhatsApp for 90%, Telegram for ~7%, Signal for 3%), then there are three slack workspaces and a Matrix/Element to keep track of. And I guess there's Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook for misc personal/work stuff (less critical, but do get messages on there).
I would pay money for an app that combines all of this (and works) like Element One or Beeper (problem is that Signal Bridge on Element has caused a ton of problems/bugs, and I heard of reports of people's Telegram account getting banned using Element One).
I personally use Matrix and bridge all my social accounts to there. It works super well, because my friends don't have to switch their app, but I see everyone in just one app. matrix.org/bridges
Worth mentioning: https://www.beeper.com/ Essentially a Matrix-powered service focused on bringing a ton of inboxes. I've heard it's great, but never tried it myself.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22995431/european-union-d...
This would solve it. Then you could simply use a single app.
This is a political thing. So, vote for it, talk to the politicians.
- For things which don't spam you (e.g. messengers like Signal or WhatsApp), use similar settings for the various apps on your phone. If you don't want a lot of noise, set them to show you unread messages as badges and put them on the front page of your phone
- For things which are used infrequently or do spam you, set up email alerts when possible (e.g. when someone @-mentions you on one of your thousand Slack workspaces), combined with email filters which put things in folders which you can check much like the badged apps.
- If a message comes in on a rarely-checked channel and you don't get it for a long time, respond with an apology on a more preferred channel (e.g. a friend messages you on LinkedIn and you respond with an email or message on Signal).
- Accept that you have to let some messages slip through, and trust that your relationships can handle some people having to try a second channel to reach you, some of the time.