I was hoping to keep my phone fully clear of play services but notifications through FCM are unfortunately integral to the android experience now. I set up my own Molly Socket and unified push, but I sometimes notifications were delayed, and I do really like being able to see the contents and reply to messages from the notification which I don’t think unified push does (or at least molly socket didnt). And it was also the only app I had that supported unified push. I’m really hoping it catches on future. Would love to get rid of play services entirely