tati

writer of human & machine words

trans. cyborg. hermit-lite. 30ish. script kitty.


Loves:

-@julez

-fighting games


_tati on discord.


pervocracy
@pervocracy

I would be more responsive online if so many sites hadn't decided to throw "a person you know is speaking directly to you" and "We Think This Might Interest You" into the same bucket of infinite notifications


pervocracy
@pervocracy

extra special hate for the CVS app, which does not have separate notification settings for "your prescription cannot be filled, contact your doctor ASAP" and "new deals picked just for you!"

great job, CVS marketers, you found a scenario where it might be medically dangerous for your users to turn off notifications, and you put ads in it


lupi
@lupi

every time i get a notification from the wells fargo app it fills me with abject terror because it pegs the vibration motor on my phone for like a whole second and then its for something stupid and not "you overdrafted"


NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

It rules that all our communication channels are inundated with garbage to the point most people just gave up on trying to sort the noise from the signal

Last year we ended up going without health insurance for the last four months because there was an issue with our payment and they only notified us by mailing us an overdue bill... Which we threw out because the envelope looked exactly the same as the dozen garbage "offers" we get every fucking day


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

The actual reason I left Twitter and Reddit was that I stopped using the official apps because they would send me "Hey you haven't opened me in a while! Here's some random trending posts" notifications, and then after I got comfortable with some third party apps that did not speak to me unless spoken to, they shut off their third party app APIs :\

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in reply to @NoelBWrites's post:

god i hate all those "urgent, open immediately" mails from my internet service provider and then its just "you could be buying tv from us too y'know look heres a deal"