[jagged-chisel]

Marketing has, and will continue to, ruin notifications. One time notification paint is ready? Surely, they think, they can upsell you on other related and tangential products. You know, to ~~keep the cash flowing~~ help you be more successful at your DIYing.

[deathanatos]

> Marketing has, and will continue to, ruin notifications.

This is one of my personal "Laws", except it's not just notifications. Any communications medium will eventually be ruined by spam. What makes a medium useful to legitimate consumers/users is what makes it a target for "marketing", i.e., spam.

I've seen multiple media ruined by marketing in my lifetime. This isn't a technological problem.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Improvements are still improvements.

How does a good actor do this in good faith right now?

Email? Costs money. SMS? Costs money. RSS? Wildly unpopular. ActivityPub? Can't be statically hosted and fairly unpopular.

Right now they basically use fucking Facebook and fucking Twitter, and even then you're subscribing to an entire stream.

[sneak]

It is technically trivial to make a forwarding email address that works once and only once.