Mastodawn

It figures. I have been running both #ntfy and #gotify for years, just too lazy to fix up the last couple of items and pick one. Last week I settled on #ntfy instead of #gotify, got the last couple items switched over, etc. The next day, they proudly take in a huge shitpile of LLM code. "Well-tested!" Then hotfix after hotfix..

Are there any third options? This seems like the sort of space that #OSS should shine but somehow doesn't.. I just want a decent notification app.

github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/tag/v2.18.0

#llm #aislop #notifications #selfhost #selfhosted #android

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Marwe Apr 1

@dis This may be the reason for the constant error messages from #ntfy?
[are these push notifications ;? I guess local, since service is dysfunctional]

I just learned that the most prominent xmpp servers have implementation of the protocol, and if the mod was activated it can easily be used.
You can use the app #conversations as distributor on your phone.

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Marwe Apr 1

@dis another alternative is selfhosting or extension of nextcloud with the UnifiedPush Provider App - look for nextpush (the corresponding Android app option).
BTW found out: currently it is my own server having issues, not ntfy...

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Dis

@Marwe I don't know that adding the multi-piece complexity and fragility of #nextcloud (or #xmpp) is going to fill the need for a simple somewhat-durable notifier.
I miss running XMPP (and IRC) back in the day but unless I'm already hosting it, it is way too heavy for a notifier. (Right now ntfy and gotify together are using about 100 megs of ram and basically no cpu or disk. Once ntfy goes away, gotify is only using 27 megs.) And I've got so many issues with nextcloud that I am still running seafile and cursing about it.

For example, you probably know that nextcloud can use S3 as a backend. And you can use OIDC to log in. You can even set up encryption to protect all that data out there in the cloud on S3. But do you know that combining any of those features results in permanently corrupted data? And there are pick-any-two variants of these configurations that are "more" valid, which means that they don't corrupt your data until much later. That part was the most fun. (Rant about ldap removed, but go ahead and mention nextcloud ldap+encryption, I dare you 😜)