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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by _-___________-_ on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:52AM (#25880756)
It doesn't need access to the content of the messages.
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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by sneak on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:04AM (#25883199)
Sure, but it needs to know that there are new messages. I don't think that's a separate permission on any (e.g.) ActivityPub/XMPP/IRC server implementation today.
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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by _-___________-_ on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:35PM (#25975211)
On all XMPP server implementations I've worked with, the push notifications mechanism supports (and usually defaults to) not including any message body in the API call to the push server. Usually it's also possible to leave out the sender name/JID, e.g. with prosody's mod_cloud_notify.
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