Your inbox has an RSS feed that you can hook up to whatever RSS reader you want. Personally I let my Android app watch for notifications every 30 mins, and then KDE Connect will mirror that notification onto my PC when my phone dings.
… every 30 minutes? gotta admit… i like it a little more fast-paced.
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.
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.
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.
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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So, am I the only one using e-mail notifications? It’s basically instant.
admittedly, that is what I’m doing. wanna geek out about mail clients?
Well, I just use the provider’s app, InstAddr. POP3 and SMTP are a premium feature. But anyway, it works well.
I’m using deltachat: it lets me set notification sounds on a per-contact basis. it’s not per-lemmy-user but it’s still nice to know that it’s a Lemmy notification just by hearing it.
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How do you do that? I’ve gone through every setting I can find and I can’t figure out how to get email notifications.
Click on your account, go to settings, in the section with checkboxes near bottom there’s option “Send notifications to e-mail”.
I finally see it, but it’s grayed out. That’s why I never noticed it. I can’t click on it.
Do you have an email set on your account?
I don’t remember. I’ve looked everywhere to see if I have one, or if I could add one, but I can’t figure out where that would be.
Same settings page, at the top, between Bio and Matrix user settings.
Well, you have proven me to be completely incompetent in finding things on my own.
Set a alarm for 9am every day to remember to check it. Back in my day we had to walk to the mail box to check if we had mail.
If you use an rss reader, there’s a feed of replies you can subscribe to. Extremely convenient!
