Notices by ck@chaos.social

@dalias
There are a couple of options for notifications.
The most battery saving design is to have your app being woken up whenever a notification is received. This way, you app does not use battery while there is nothing for it to do. The dominant solution in this space is integrated into Google Play (proprietary). The opposite site of the spectrum, and the solution Signal chose, is for the app to require permission to stay awake all the time polling for notifications.
@Mer__edith

@dalias
The vexing part is that @signalapp (seemingly categorically ) refuses to cooperate with the rest of the FOSS world to integrate with open solutions, which already exist. Instead, their spokespeople like
@Mer__edith prefer to talk down to people who, for whichever reason can't or don't want to run proprietary Google services on their Android phone.