eternity supports notifications
Push Notifications don't really exist for Lemmy yet, as they aren't supported in the backend currently:
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1027 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631
As someone else here said, your best bet is probably monitoring your Inbox RSS feed.
This is right. Push notifs are something I really wanted to get into lemmy this year, but it's dependent on a LOT of other work, so we'll see.
Boost but its not open source
I second.
I use FeedWatcher to monitor my inbox RSS feed and get notified when something new comes in.
Note: do NOT share that feed with someone else, or they'll be able to watch your inbox too.
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Thunder has experimental support, haven't tried it yet though (says it costs extra battery)
I use notifications in Thunder and I've had no issues. I haven't compared the difference or anything, but when I've happened to check battery usage it's always been a reasonable amount for how much I've used it that day. It does generate a decent amount of network traffic since it's regularly checking with you instance for it, and that traffic is generated for each account you have reaching out to each instance. That should be how any FOSS app works though, the alternative would be something like Sync where you pay to have actual pushes sent from their server.
Eternity.
It's not perfect, tho.
It doesn't work at all for me. Dev said that Lemmy 20 will support push notifications so I guess it's on the way
Sync also works
Not much help right now, but looks like voyager has it on the road map. https://github.com/aeharding/voyager !voyagerapp@lemmy.world
Take a look at Thunder. It has had notifications for quite a long time. They are delayed by 15 minutes, but that's nothing compared to not getting notifications at all.
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