The only thing on my phone that's allowed to notify me are messaging apps, and even then, only for direct messages, not groups.

Social media, games, sites, and everything else can all fuck right off - you do not get to demand my attention unbidden, and if you misbehave you are going in the trash.

Notifications are a cognitohazard

I think most launchers (on Android) allow to hide these "dots"

No one in my life understands this. I haaaaate having these notifications. The worst ones are those that can't be cleared.

I tur off notificatuons for over 90% of that shit. Direct messages I need and I need to know when my daily chess moves are (duh).

Nothing else compels me.

A friend of mine has more than 2000 unread mails, and he just left them there with that big fat number covering half of the icon. Like, bruh.

No Google Play Services, no more marketing notifications. Bliss and privacy.

I dont get that

Aside from the 10 notifications I have 24/7 on silent because otherwise most of my Apps couldnt run (frickin google making it so you need to use their system for an app to run in the background) I only get notifications if someone calls me, or texts me via telegram, or if I need to install Updates from Obtainium or Fdroid

Lemmy? No notifications. E1547? No. Antennapod? Kinda, I set it on auto download so I have something to listen to. Newpipe also only refreshes when I want it to, I don't need to have the „Pyro raging at Inflation joke” fed to me every day.

Can't they be disabled? I haven't got an iphone, but these would piss me off a lot

These went away on my MILs phone (I think after an update), so she was freaking out that she couldn't tell when someone had texted her. Other than the notification bar and chime when they were received, that is.

I rarely ever see these. What do people do for this to happen?

I also only allow notifications like this on select apps. Direct messaging, mostly. I let Bandcamp tell me about new albums and the library tell me about when my books are available/due, but that's about it.

I turn that off

Whoa, does that flower have only one fossy app (Wiki) on their phone??

Perhaps lawnmowering you lawn isn't always that bad ... (it is tho)

... being bothered by dots is the same as being bothered by calls or knocks on your door.

Just mediate until your brainhole develops an indiscriminate ignore all toggle.

/j

On android all my life and never had red dots. I guess this is on iPhones?