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Maybe it isn't needed but are there any Lemmy iOS clients able to recieve push notifications? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been going from app to app, some clients have a push notification setting but I’m still not getting anything when I’m outside of the app. What’s causing this? And are there apps where push notifications are working currently?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] shortwavesurfer 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pull clients? I’m new to all of this. 😭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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).