I could rant for a long time about notifications. I spend a lot of time curating them. I have them outright disabled on most apps on my phone. I don't allow any desktop notifications on my PC. I've dealt with facebook notifications for a long time. One of the most annoying things about facebook notifications is that I will get notified when other people reply to a thread that I've replied to, even when they aren't replying to me directly. But if I turn notifications off, I don't get any for direct replies to me.

There are very few things I want to be notified of. Mainly I want to be notified when a person has directly interacted with me or with something I've said. I setup an instagram account forever ago and tried to set it up so I only got those types of notifications, but it would give me a notification to essentially just open the app. I couldn't turn that off, so I just disabled notifications entirely. Now I don't even open the app anymore.

I'm part of a team that uses basecamp to communicate, and I constantly have to unsubscribe from new threads where all of the replies are "ok" or thumbs up emoji or whatever. It's annoying, but nowhere near as bad as the "band" app we used before that. That app had the worst notification experience I've ever had. It would give you notifications for all kinds of things that were completely irrelevant to anything. It's the only app I've bothered to review.