Thanks for this secure your hive tip!

Looking into things with lump, it seems that with a phone XMPP is an intermediary. Notifications are still routed through Apple (APN) or Google (FCM). Quote: "The difference with your own server is simply that you hold the API keys and control the routing logic - not that the path avoids Apple / G...

So would you be thinking instead of using a client that supports UnifiedPush to receive notifications. In that case I presume the route is to download and install ntfy from F-droid, select Element (uses Matrix Protocol) or Conversations (XMPP protocol), and then use UnifiedPush as the method with c...