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Enable Push Notifications without Google Services

You have two options to receive push notifications on FluffyChat without Google Services.

  1. Unified Push
  2. MicroG

1. Unified Push

UnifiedPush is specifications and tools that let the user choose how push notifications are delivered. All in a free and open source way.

Use hosted (easy)

  1. Go to: https://gotify1.unifiedpush.org/
  2. Register an account with a username+password
  3. Download UP-Gotify from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.github.gotify.up/
  4. Login on https://gotify1.unifiedpush.org/ with your username+password
  5. Restart FluffyChat

From now on all push notifications will go through unified push.

Self-host (hard)

For more privacy and protection of your meta data you can self host Gotify for unified push.

Learn more about it here: https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/gotify/

2. MicroG

You can use Firebase Cloud Messaging without Google Services using MicroG.

Learn more about it here: https://microg.org/