Comment on How do you get notified of replies on lemmy?

• yote_zip@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The app I use (Eternity) has options for 15/30/60/etc mins. You can theoretically get notifications every second if you set up your own RSS reader to check that quickly (though be considerate of your instance’s resources). Before I settled on my current solution I had an RSS reader check every so often and ding a desktop notification when it found something. I use 30 minutes because if I’m using Lemmy I’ll see the notification alert anyway, and if I’m away from Lemmy I don’t want to be notified potentially every 15 minutes when people keep replying.

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yea, rss readers are a balance. my biggest problem with them is that they all seem feature-incomplete and the variety of features is so varied between them. android in particular has never seemed to have the “right” reader for me. recently i tried to love thunderbird on desktop, but i’m afraid liferea is a pretty clear winner in this regard.

    my frustration with finding a decent rss reader is a major contributing factor in my quest to learn python.

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    • yote_zip@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I use FreshRSS on desktop (web client from my self-hosted instance), and Readrops on Android (synced to my FreshRSS). For Lemmy notifications specifically you’ll likely want a dedicated client that is noisy. I was using Brief for this task temporarily, with only one RSS feed loaded and having it set to delete all but the latest message.

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        thanks for the tip if i ever get a machine i can dedicate to hosting an rss reader i may do that.

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