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).
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).