How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations. Published the 31/01/2025 This post will focus on Android. We all know decentralized applications: emails, Mastodon (and the Fediverse), Nextcloud and other clouds, Git servers, Messaging services like XMPP or Matrix, Feed reader (RSS), some calendars, etc. They are decentralized because they don’t rely on a single server, own by a single entity.