Notices by UnifiedPush (unifiedpush@fosstodon.org)

**Push notifications for decentralized services**

How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations.

https://unifiedpush.org/news/20250131_push_for_decentralized/

#UnifiedPush #Webpush #decentralization

The migration to @Codeberg is now done ! 🎉

All the repositories are mirrored to github and all the CI have been updated.

Next versions of the libraries will be on mavenCentral.

Thanks @nlnet for giving time to do these small but important tasks 🙏

#UnifiedPush

This week, next gen @element client, Element-X, and @neochat announced they are supporting #UnifiedPush. This makes 2 more @matrix clients supporting it !

NeoChat the second Linux app officially supporting UnifiedPush, after @tokodon

#matrix

In addition, we strongly advise developers to encrypt their push notifications, recommending #WebPush [*] or to adopt a sync-on-push strategy (which is what Signal does).

[*] Follow RFC8291, forget about the old draft protocol abandoned 7 years ago!

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned : https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

That's why it's important to offer your users alternatives.

#PushNotifications

SmallTalk is a minimal, modern, friends and family focused Android messenger. Heavily inspired by Whatsapp and Signal, powered by Matrix.

Its goals are to be reliable and stable, and have a tiny app size.

It recently started supporting UnifiedPush, and publishing beta releases on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dapk.st
And the IzzySoft F-Droid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.dapk.st

You can find out more about it at https://github.com/ouchadam/small-talk

#matrix #messenger #chat #android #app #UnifiedPush #smalltalk