Out of curiosity will sync for lemmy have push notifications?
Was on Memmy’s discord and found an intersting problem with push notifications. Currently lemmy doesn’t have any way to send push notifiations (via api or webhooks). In Memmy’s case the dev is relying on frequent polling (say one request per min). A problem with this though is its increadibly bandwith intensive. For just 800 users there is 3gb of bandwith used for memmy’s polled notifications. If scaled to sync would mean 30 terabytes of bandwith daily (based this communities 10,000 user subscribers at a poll rate of one request a min).
I will genuinely never understand why anyone would want notifications from social media or news sites. That’s like having a newspaper that pokes you constantly.
My phone drives me mad enough with WhatsApp and email, I’d fling it in a fuckin loch if it did it any more :)
Its not about the news, its about the conversation about the news.
When youre talking about something interesting, its nice to know when people reply back. Long gaps in a back and forth naturally kill conversation, which notifications help keep going.
^This
Additionally some times I just open lemmy (and Reddit in the past). To check inbox. Push notifications disables that need (no notifications = conversation hasn’t progressed much = no need to open app 😉).
Hashtags and mentions necessitate participation in a timely manner.
This may not be a consideration for everyone, but it certainly fuels the hustle and bustle of the community.
I couldn’t agree more! My wife’s phone goes off all night because of Snapchat and Facebook that it has to stay in the living room or all I hear all night is. Bzzz bzzz bzzzzzz. Idk how people use notifications like that but to each their own!
Personally my phone goes into do not disturb when I it’s charging and it’s past 11pm. If any of my favorite contacts or a repeat caller calls me then it will actually ring through to me. But it’s keeps the screen off, in black and white when it does get turned on manually, and means my phone doesn’t vibrate or beat throughout the night for any notifications.
This feature is amazing but my Pixel phone fucked me one night in that. I used do not disturb minus a list of select people. With that in mind they also have flip to shhh so if your phones on the screen it won’t ring regardless of who’s in the list of favorites. My brother got a DUI one night because I didn’t hear my phone being flipped over and if I heard it the cop.was gonna let me pick him up and take him home. (I live in a real small town).
Ah man that sucks. I do wonder about those kinda of things and it’s gotten me to when I’m late for work and someone at work will call me once and my phone won’t ring and wake me up. Thankfully I also have a work phone and generally people call that and it’s always on loud since I don’t use it for much other than work stuff.
Please no push notifications! Please! The first thing I turn off for any app is push notifications. Text and call notifications are more than enough.
The first thing I turn off for any app is push notifications.
You clearly know there is a solution to your problem but you still want to take the ability away from people who want it? Weird.
Whats wrong with having an option? I’m not saying it should be manditory 😉
Lemmy is actually interesting as there could be four implementations (or five if you consider none).
- Standard instant push notifications (you get them in app and out of app)
- Push notifications only while app is open in forground (example lemmy web ui only has notifications when tab is open)
- Polled notifications (notifications that occur after preset interval).
- A combination of the above three (ex: polled notifications in background push in forground)
- No notifcations at all
Just some thoughts
It could just be off by default
