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UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol (2022)

by whereistimbo on 11/9/24, 9:58 PM with 15 comments

  • by traveler1 on 11/10/24, 8:47 AM

    Whilst this is theoretically a nice idea for security/privacy, wouldn’t there be throughput/latency concerns over mobile networks if you aren’t just connecting to one server and getting all your notifications in one go? One of the biggest slow downs on mobile data is the initial handshake, so repeating that for each of your apps doesn’t seem worth the trade off to me.

  • by dang on 11/13/24, 6:50 PM

    Related. Others?

    Conversations (XMPP Client) is now a UnifiedPush distributor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34381598 - Jan 2023 (30 comments)

    UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34094497 - Dec 2022 (146 comments)

  • by mmwelt on 11/10/24, 6:39 AM

    A pity that iOS doesn't support UnifiedPush and probably won't in the foreseeable future[1].

    [1] https://unifiedpush.org/users/faq/#will-unifiedpush-ever-wor...

  • by mothergreen on 11/13/24, 3:11 PM

    this whole mess could be solved by mobile network operators giving every device a static IPv6, which the services can directly send packets to.

    you know, just how the Internet Protocol was originally intended.

  • by Ruthalas on 11/10/24, 8:30 PM

    I would love for RocketChat to support UnifiedPush. It seems like such good fit.

  • by sneak on 11/10/24, 2:38 PM

    Isn’t ntfy run purely best-effort for free by one person as a hobby?