Hi,
I recently switched to lemmy from reddit. I tried some of the mobile apps, and for now decided to use Boost.
While testing i figured out, that non of the apps i tried out are able to send push notifications while the apps aren’t running. I have to open the app to recieve the notifications about e.g. new replies to my posts.
I am just curious: Is this a limitation of the lemmy software? Is this something that could be toggled by the instance hosts?
I remember Christian talking about this with Apollo for Reddit and he said this was why he charged for the app, because the push notifications cost him money and it sounded like it was based on the quantity of the notifications, not a base rate either, which could get expensive.
Since nearly all of these apps are free, that may be part of the reason in keeping the cost at what it is of development.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense! Thank you for your answer!
Some things in life don’t send push notifications they just happen quietly while you’re looking away. Maybe that’s a flaw or maybe that’s exactly how it’s meant to be.
Lemmy itself does not support push notifications yet
Thanks for the fast reply! Good to know!
