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Hi guys weird question, I use lemmy's inbox RSS as a sort of pseudo push notification (currently using monito RSS discord bot polling at every 10 min).

I was considering dropping the poll rate to every 1-2 min. Out of curiosity is a rss poll rate of every 1-2 min acceptable or considered excessive.

Primary reason I was considering dropping the poll rate this low is to prevent a notification lag (ie when brosing lemmy via a 3rd party app after viewing and marking a message as read 10 min latter I get a inbox notification for the same message).

Curious on your thoughts

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[โ€“] Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I actually ended up handling push notifications slightly differently.

I have a Mac Mini running 24/7 (primarily to relay iMessage to my Android)

I set up email rules to detecect the email and run an apple script that runs a shortcut which checks my Lemmy rss inbox and sends a push notification via ntfy. Works like a charm

[โ€“] neshura 1 points 2 years ago

Great workaround, hopefully some of the new apps coming will have notifications built in so stuff like this w9n't be neccessary anymore