Out of curiosity will sync for lemmy have push notifications?
Was on Memmy’s discord and found an intersting problem with push notifications. Currently lemmy doesn’t have any way to send push notifiations (via api or webhooks). In Memmy’s case the dev is relying on frequent polling (say one request per min). A problem with this though is its increadibly bandwith intensive. For just 800 users there is 3gb of bandwith used for memmy’s polled notifications. If scaled to sync would mean 30 terabytes of bandwith daily (based this communities 10,000 user subscribers at a poll rate of one request a min).
Personally my phone goes into do not disturb when I it’s charging and it’s past 11pm. If any of my favorite contacts or a repeat caller calls me then it will actually ring through to me. But it’s keeps the screen off, in black and white when it does get turned on manually, and means my phone doesn’t vibrate or beat throughout the night for any notifications.
This feature is amazing but my Pixel phone fucked me one night in that. I used do not disturb minus a list of select people. With that in mind they also have flip to shhh so if your phones on the screen it won’t ring regardless of who’s in the list of favorites. My brother got a DUI one night because I didn’t hear my phone being flipped over and if I heard it the cop.was gonna let me pick him up and take him home. (I live in a real small town).
Ah man that sucks. I do wonder about those kinda of things and it’s gotten me to when I’m late for work and someone at work will call me once and my phone won’t ring and wake me up. Thankfully I also have a work phone and generally people call that and it’s always on loud since I don’t use it for much other than work stuff.