Are push notifications as a whole not possible because of something Lemmy related? Or is it developer related? I haven’t seen any 3rd-party apps tout push notifications.
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Some apps (ex. Boost in my case) use polled notifications, where the app checks every hour and makes a notification if there’s anything new. Generally Lemmy replies aren’t urgent so this hasn’t been a problem
Arctic supports push notifications. The reason why it’s not more common amongst 3rd party apps, is because you in need a dedicated server to enable push notifications. Push notifications are part of the Lemmy roadmap, maybe when that’s released, 3rd party apps can take a advantage of it.
