Hi guys basically as the title says. I have a pixel phone running GrapheneOS and I really don’t want to install Play Services. Is there an alternative for me? I need reliable notifications for Telegram and signal. Edit: Thank you all amazing people for helping I learned alot and found best setup for me

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    FYI for the other commenters, UnifiedPush can work thru the Prosody mod_unified_push or any server with a up where Conversations (& its forks like Cheogram, Monocles, Blabber) can be a distributor. This has the added bonus of coming with an awesome decentralized XMPP chat server getting to reuse a single connection & single app to server instead of separate ones. Conversations is the most efficient chat client on Android in terms of resources (battery, network, RAM) so might as well keep it lightweight—which you are probably trying to get push notifications from the likes of Signal or Element, but what is the point when you have an efficient XMPP server for your chat needs?

    However, I think UnifiedPush might be a bit flawed—as if the startup that created ntfy is pushing others to try to adopt their standard instead of getting folks on board with the older & capable MQTT (which also can be ran thru mod_mqtt on your XMPP server). I am not yet sure if this is a tinfoil take or not.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
      English
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      5 months ago

      It’s truly ironic, but its really a good choice, if you don’t care about repairability and removable battery

      • Bullybeard@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Holy shit I just commented it was ironic, didn’t even say it was bad or good and I got 12 down votes? I suppose the reddit hivemind mentality carries over to Lemmy as well

    • ivn@jlai.lu
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      5 months ago

      I don’t know, if your goal is security Pixels have the best hardware and GrapheneOS the best software. It makes a lot of sense.

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Sure, but it’s still ironic. I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing to buy a Google device just to degoogle it, but I think that does fit the definition of irony.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Good choices. I take this a step further and bridge IRC, Signal, Gvoice, and WhatsApp from a plugged in device or container to Matrix. Then use ntfy for Matrix notifications. This gives me notifications for all of them in Matrix/Element and thus through ntfy.

        Example: Instead of Molly I use mautrix-signal bridge as the device and it feeds messages into Matrix.

        There’s also a Telegram bridge: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/telegram/

  • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Why do you not want play services on grapheneos? Doesn’t the sandboxing remove any issues with it?