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?

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
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    6 hours ago

    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.