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Hi,

I recently switched to lemmy from reddit. I tried some of the mobile apps, and for now decided to use Boost.

While testing i figured out, that non of the apps i tried out are able to send push notifications while the apps aren't running. I have to open the app to recieve the notifications about e.g. new replies to my posts.

I am just curious: Is this a limitation of the lemmy software? Is this something that could be toggled by the instance hosts?

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Some things in life don’t send push notifications they just happen quietly while you’re looking away. Maybe that’s a flaw or maybe that’s exactly how it’s meant to be.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

Lemmy itself does not support push notifications yet

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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