hmmmmm
thinking about how you might be able to do federated push notification proxies from mastodon -> (apple / google) push -> phones that mastodon apps can use in order to not set up their own servers
I'm not actually sure iOS has this issue but android definitely appears to not let app developers listen to a websocket in the background based on my experience
@kepstin I'm well aware of why GCM exists :)
@iliana Heh, I just read https://hpbn.co/optimizing-for-mobile-networks/ recently, so I still have this stuff stuck in my head :/