Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile
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#2Such a great, simple and reliable service. Using it for all sorts of things: nostr push notifications, link sharing between devices, grafana alert notifications.
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#3Been running ntfy in my homelab for several years. Always works great!
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#4nearly every MVP of mine adds Ntfy. Its too easy to not add.
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#5I wonder whats the difference between permisions do giant apps like whatsapp, instagram have for notification service.
cause they seem like perfectly integrated themselves into this, while ntfy has to pose itself as battery consuming application
I'm planning to using ntfy for notifications like bitwarden vault backups, if apps are updated.
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#6I wonder whats the difference between permisions do giant apps like whatsapp, instagram have for notification service. cause they seem like perfectly integrated themselves into this, while ntfy has to pose itself as battery consuming application I'm planning to using ntfy for notifications like bitwarden vault backups, if apps are updated.
Probably not permissions so
much as proper implementation of push messaging for mobile. Apple created a push message infrastructure and Google followed that allows their messaging infrastructure already running on the phone to multiplex messages for multiple apps without needing additional power for listening.
I use Pushover for email push notifications- it doesn’t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.
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#7There used to be pushed.co which was free and pretty good but it seems to have disappeared completely. Does anyone know what happened to them?
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#8I'm a privacy focused self hoster and ntfy was not good enough for me so I created Prism with an optional Android app: https://git.lonecloud.dev/lone-cloud/prism
The difference: Your phone doesn't get notifications from your notification service directly, but from Mozilla which helps to hide your digital fingerprint of you using a separate notification provider like ntfy. Prism also allows Telegram or Signal to act as a notification distributor. In addition, I use Proton Mail which doesn't really allow custom notification services. Prism has a custom integration to work around that so your proton mail notifications don't have to touch google services.
Re: Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile
#9I wonder whats the difference between permisions do giant apps like whatsapp, instagram have for notification service. cause they seem like perfectly integrated themselves into this, while ntfy has to pose itself as battery consuming application I'm planning to using ntfy for notifications like bitwarden vault backups, if apps are updated.
What do you mean by "battery consuming application"? At least the PWA of ntfy can use Web Push, which uses your browser's existing push notification service and should not consume any additional battery.
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#10I've been using Gotify [1] for a very long time and have been quite happy with it. Basically no impact on battery life. For devs - there are mature libraries like shoutrr [2] and apprise [3] that let you support multiple notification systems with no extra work.