app.bsky.notifications.registerPush to send push tokens to…

Samuel 22 Dec 2023

let's go. steps 1 & 2 of notifications (getting push tokens from the device and receiving events from the firehose) is working

Samuel@samuel.fm· 22 Dec 2023

thank you Josh!

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

now we just need step 3 (filtering out mutes & blocks 🙃) and step 4 (sending them!)

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Michel Bestaat 22 Dec 2023

What ya doing?

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Samuel

@samuel.fm

app.bsky.notifications.registerPush to send push tokens to my server

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Michel Bestaat 22 Dec 2023

Oooh. Are you sure you can pull that off? Coincidentally I saw a reply from Paul this morning on my question on that. He told me that push notifications cannot be sent to third party apps (in the atproto github how to discussions)

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

yeah so their backend cannot send it to our apps. but we can make our own backends (which is what @skeetsapp.com does). simply change the serviceDid to your own service (i.e. did:web:graysky.app, which then has a DID document at graysky.app/.well-known/... pointing to my API

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

then you have to read the firehose to figure out what to send to that token. It’s a lot!

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Michel Bestaat 22 Dec 2023

Have fun!

Michel Bestaat 22 Dec 2023

I see. My atproto tinkering got already out of hand. Now I need a server. 😅 We'll see.

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

Yep 😅 this is by far the roughest part I’ve come across tbf, clearly needs improving on the protocol side

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Michel Bestaat 22 Dec 2023

The registerPush seems only some very light sugar coating around Google's Fire Cloud Messaging. In understand this is not your top prio when building a new protocol.

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

Oh it’s not even that. It just forwards it to a server (in the official app’s case, the AppView, which then figures out what to send and sends it to APN/FCM)

Michel Bestaat 22 Dec 2023

But you won't be bored during the holidays.