I'm normally an inbox-zero kind of person, because unaddressed notifications are super stressful for me. But I haven't used gmail for anything but spam in a several years so this prompted me to go have a look:
3,958 in my inbox - and instead of stress, I love it. Over 1300 of those are because I, apparently, never deleted my xenophobia.com nextdoor account.
xenophobia.com lol, that’s so true though. On mine there is a lady who posts about 100 times per day, so she clearly doesn’t have a job. And she is obsessed with thinking there are gunshots. We live in a super safe suburban neighborhood. There are no gunshots. It’s hilarious.
I stopped visiting very shortly after it opened up because every post was stuff like you said:
I used to think I just had extra shitty neighbors, but I've heard similar from a lot of people.
Maybe it's not that the neighbours are awful but that the subset of neighbours that use this kind of app is mostly awful.
The trouble is caused by completely unreasonable folks who if it weren't for the internet would be silently stuck in their house peering out the window and keeping their miserable energy to themselves.
...thinking about it a similar explanation goes for a lot of toxicity you see on the internet!
Omg, my neighbour feeds the squirrels also, because he thinks they can't fend for themselves.... So I had shells, bread, trays for water, etc. just littered at my front door. While he lives above me, not thinking about the consequences of feeding wild animals.
We did have a hilarious troll who would rage about people taking a shit in their mailbox. Or maybe someone really kept shitting in their mailbox. Either was it was an entertaining read.
I had this before, but with 7k emails I think.
I just took an hour or two of my time to clean it up completely.
When clicking "Unsubscribe" and you are redirected to a mailchimp or similar email service, select "I did not sign up for this". This way they can get in trouble with their email service :)
Well I'm from Europe. Being added to marketing mails without my explicit consent is illegal.
It's funny because I have a GDPR complaint against a big online service that added me to their marketing list after using their online contact form to get some information. I thought it was a simple complaint but a few months later I got a legal document outlining all of the infractions they made and that there's now a case open against this company.
If you signed up for their mails willingly that's a totally different story of course.
Y'all talking about the emails but I was shocked to learn that other people have enough texts to not read them all...
I'm a government official, and my work cell is like that.
I don't respond to texts on that number because text messaging isn't a proper channel for official communication.
Nope. I'm not acting on any information that can't be pulled in an Open Records Request after I leave the city.
If it's over 1000 it should just display the infinity symbol like the GitHub PR UI, since it might as well be infinity
Side note, but ever since I removed those app notifications, my experience with going through my home screen felt much better.
Not sure if groupchats are included in that number but depending on the groups you're in that could be accumulated in about 10 minutes.
I'm going to break his record.
And then some guy on YouTube is going to make a video about it called "the quest to beat Matt Turck"