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Muting notifications and deleting do not have to be correlated (unless you send something offensive enough to prompt someone to delete immediately).

Muting notifications means "I don't need this thing to interrupt me". Deleting means "I don't need to use this thing ever".

Those are very different and separate things - I have plenty of apps that I use regularly and yet they do not have notifications enabled because there would be no value from that.

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This is a really helpful way to separate the two.

I think a lot of product discussions collapse engagement into notifications, when in reality many useful tools are pull-based by nature. I personally have apps I use weekly that would be worse if they ever notified me.

Maybe the mistake is assuming interruptions equal usefulness, when for many apps the value is exactly the opposite: being available, predictable, and quiet until needed.

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