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Edit 1: Sadly, I have to settle with Summit for lemmy for now.

Hopefully Jerboa add this functionality later.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

eternity supports notifications

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Push Notifications don't really exist for Lemmy yet, as they aren't supported in the backend currently:

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1027 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631

As someone else here said, your best bet is probably monitoring your Inbox RSS feed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

This is right. Push notifs are something I really wanted to get into lemmy this year, but it's dependent on a LOT of other work, so we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boost but its not open source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I use FeedWatcher to monitor my inbox RSS feed and get notified when something new comes in.

Note: do NOT share that feed with someone else, or they'll be able to watch your inbox too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thunder has experimental support, haven't tried it yet though (says it costs extra battery)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I use notifications in Thunder and I've had no issues. I haven't compared the difference or anything, but when I've happened to check battery usage it's always been a reasonable amount for how much I've used it that day. It does generate a decent amount of network traffic since it's regularly checking with you instance for it, and that traffic is generated for each account you have reaching out to each instance. That should be how any FOSS app works though, the alternative would be something like Sync where you pay to have actual pushes sent from their server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eternity.

It's not perfect, tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It doesn't work at all for me. Dev said that Lemmy 20 will support push notifications so I guess it's on the way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sync also works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not much help right now, but looks like voyager has it on the road map. https://github.com/aeharding/voyager [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Take a look at Thunder. It has had notifications for quite a long time. They are delayed by 15 minutes, but that's nothing compared to not getting notifications at all.