Myth: more notifications bring people back
"Ping the role, send the announcement, remind them" — the assumption is that notifications recover attention. Notification-fatigue research says they spend it.
What the data shows
Platform retention curves and mobile-notification studies converge on a pattern: notification volume and long-term engagement form an inverted U. Early pings re-activate; past a threshold, each additional ping raises the probability of muting or leaving rather than returning. Once a user mutes a server, their re-engagement rate craters — the channel becomes effectively invisible to them.
Why it happens
Notifications are a withdrawal from a finite trust account. A relevant one earns a deposit; an irrelevant @everyone is a withdrawal. Mute is the user defending the account, and mute is usually permanent.
The caveat
Thresholds are highly population-dependent — a trading-signals server tolerates pings a book club never would. The inverted-U shape is robust; the peak location is not.
The quiet rule: treat @everyone as a budget of a few per month, not a tool.
Open question: Telegram's per-chat mute and default-silent channels may make its users more ping-tolerant — or just better at ignoring everything. Which?
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Myth: more notifications bring people back
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