I use Arctic on iOS just for push notifications, works perfectly. Can't find any working client for android though. I have tried few of them, some have notifications option but no way to turn them on for a specific account.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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Just downloaded, thanks!
Lemmy as a protocol does not currently support push notifications. The best an app could do is to stay running and constantly check for new messages, but that is far from an ideal workaround.
Ah, noted. Thank you!
I know Thunder on Android has push notifications because it checks once every 15 minutes for anything new. But I do not know about iOS.
Ahh, thank you.
Checking at a regular interval is "pull" (not push) though. Push means the client keeps a low-bandwidth connection to the server open so the server can notify the client as soon as something has happened.
Point taken, LOL. But at least you get notifications. At least on Android. As I said, I have no idea whether it works on iOS or not.
Yep. I'm not sure if OP was looking for technically-pull clients specifically, though I have to imagine conventional notifications are a basic feature even on iOS.
Pull clients? Iβm new to all of this. π
The difference is just whether the client app gets notified of new messages/replies by asking the server "Is there anything new?" on a set schedule (pull), or if the server sends the notification "Here's something new!" only when there is a new one (push).