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How to get push notifications in a degoogled phone? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi guys basically as the title says. I have a pixel phone running GrapheneOS and I really don't want to install Play Services. Is there an alternative for me? I need reliable notifications for Telegram and signal. Edit: Thank you all amazing people for helping I learned alot and found best setup for me

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Spot on response!
Just a note: in my experience Mercurygram with ntfy is terribly unreliable, with notifications coming in days later, so I personally ended up enabling its background service anyways, it doesn't look like it's taking up much battery at least

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thx for the kind words!

I left the background service on for all the messengers, it's not like the Unifiedpush ones have anything major to use anyway. This increased the reliability and peace of mind + they never show up as major battery users for me either

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean unrestricted battery usage? If so, I don't exactly understand how it differs from keeping the unifiedpush integration off and relying on the app, does it make it so that it's only "ready" to be triggered by ntfy when it would otherwise poll the server on its own very frequently (so you end up actually saving some battery)?

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

does it make it so that it's only "ready" to be triggered by ntfy when it would otherwise poll the server on its own very frequently (so you end up actually saving some battery)?

That's how I understand it, yes. You change the behaviour of the app by configuring it to use UnifiedPush, so there is less background usage to restrict

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago

I see, that makes sense