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@ hoppe
2025-04-15 00:54:18
My phone isn’t a server, so I used to wonder — how is push notification even technically possible? After looking into it, I came to the same conclusion: in the end, our phones have always had to pull notifications from a big company like Google or Apple.
When I first encountered Nostr, I couldn’t understand why notifications didn’t work — but now it makes perfect sense.
But then I started thinking — if IPv6 becomes mainstream, could we finally have true push notifications in the literal sense? If every phone can essentially be a server, then yeah — I think it might be possible!
There would be some privacy issues, of course, but still.
And since we’re talking about Pokey, I’ve noticed that alerts often didn’t seem to work properly. I suspect there are two possible reasons:
1. Pokey doesn’t pull from the user’s own nip65-based read relays, but just fetches from some popular relays.
2. The socket connection between my phone and the read relays gets dropped when the phone goes idle.