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xmpp android app with omemo and unified push notifications support (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12692350

Anyone aware of a conversations fork with support for unified push notifications? Or a similar xmpp android app with omemo (just the same as conversations' support) and unified push notifications support, available through the official f-droid repor or a f-droid repo if not available from the official ones?

BTW, I noticed [email protected] community was locked. Any particular reason for that?

Also, Converstions requests to set unrestricted use of battery, to use battery under background without restrictions. So it seems unified push notifications would help, though this github issue sort of indicates unified push notifications wouldn't help, so it just tells me there's no intention to include support for it on Conversations, but not that it wouldn't help save battery.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I thought push notifications were inherently not private, since they all go through Google or Apple as the case may be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It depends on the distributor:

https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors

And how much info they collect. I understand the ntfy requires is really bare minimum compared to what GCM/FCM asks and collects.

On mobile, it's sort of a needed if you one doesn't wand to use GCM/FCM which is really bad privacy wise, and particularly needed on peer to peer applications, because they tend to drain the battery...

Some other benefit is that for those who can, they can self-host ntfy, nextcloud with unified push provider, and so on...

On the list of apps supporting unifid push, I even see element (matrix), but I don't identify any xmpp one:

https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Note that Prosody has a UnifiedPush community module that is simple to enable. This can save you from running one extra specialized server & one extra always-on connection provided you were already runnnig an XMPP server.

It feels a bit like a Scooby Doo reveal when you use Prosody + a Conversation fork seeing UnifiedPush is all powered by XMPP since it accomplishes the same task of a push-based messaging.

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