< On receiving answers and trying to not fear of missing out
Well, FOMO is a real thing. When I disable notifications, I'm anxiously checking every hour if I have new msgs, the automated push system is replaced by a human. (I'm trying to be better than that, now I check my email only 2 times a day, and I've disabled almost every notification besides IM for my family and partners)
I like from Midnight.pub that I receive a flag when someone replies to a post or comment. You are right, feels so automated, although it's convenient to avoid getting lost in a sea of content. I think that level is good.
I'm used to the current posting system, you know, receiving many vanity metrics for our dopamine like: This post was seen by 50,000 humans, people have spent 10k minutes reading it, you received 15 reactions, and such. The real thing would be: This moved 10 people into do something or to change their mind, but that's harder to measure.
Not having any feedback besides a few emails is refreshing and at the same time you don't know how it's being received, so you hope for the best.
I remember with email systems, starting with POP3, and then we moved to IMAP, it was amazing you didn't have to check for your email every 10 minutes, it will just push the content to you. Then it was something similar with Push technology and now we have RSS/Atom, Mobile and Web Push notifications all day long.
I was reading a few ideas here about Offmini, PDAs, Internet in a post-apocalyptic future and all that sounds intriguing. It reminds me of the old printed Maganizes and newspapers which gets edited and printed every day or each week. This kind of consumption besides the infinite scroll and unlimiented content is an idea we could pursue.
The Internet of a kind of Future