According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
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It looks like that tool is more or less built by a single developer (you already trust their judgment anyways!), and even though the code came through in a single PR it was a merge from a branch that had 79 separate commits: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/pull/1619
Also glancing through it a bit, huge portions of that are straightforward refactors or even just formatting changes caused by adding a new backend option.
I’m not going to say it’s fine, but they didn’t just throw Claude at a problem and let it rewrite 25k lines of code unnecessarily.
Any AI usage immediately discredits the software for me, because it calls into question all of their past and future work.
Oh boy, do I have bad news about 90% of the internet for you…
Linus sent an email recently to the Kernel Mailing List trashing AI slop and rejecting AI generated patches. The fact that he used it to play around with a script doesn’t invalidate the fact that he distrusts code written by LLMs when it actually matters.
you mean this statement? https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/linus_versus_llms_ai_slop_docs/?td=rt-3a
If yes, your statement does not really match what Linus said.
Yeah, this is now inherently untrustworthy. Better to switch to an alternative.
Do you know any? I’ve never really looked beyond ntfy.sh until now
There’s SunUp on F-droid, but I don’t know anything about them.
That’s from Mozilla, another AI company…
Ugh, seriously? Great…
(Edit) I don’t think this is true? They use Mozilla’s push services, but nothing about their Codeberg repo (yes, it’s on Codeberg, not Github) indicates they’re part of Mozilla.
The app itself might be fine, but you are either using the Mozilla services or the backend written by Mozilla. Sadly Mozilla has lost all the good will it had and is just another silicon valley AI company these days, and seems to prefer it that way.
Sure. All I said was that it doesn’t actually seem to be run by Mozilla, like you implied it was.
The push service is run by Mozilla. Master of reading comprehension, I bow to you.
Read the README
How about you tell me what you see that I missed?
Self-host
It is possible to host your own Autopush server. Autopush is designed to work with Google BigTable but it is also possible to use it with redis.
For this:
- Clone Autopush
# mozilla-services/autopush-rs
Autopush-rs
Mozilla Push server built with Rust.
By using Sunup, your are going to have to trust Mozilla.
