I wish I could receive them. Never received any push notification from Primal. With Damus, sometimes.

I know. Having a hard time trying to figure it all out. There have been warnings of this for years though. Notifications pass to apple and google first before you getting them. This is old news. Sketchy part is they were stopped from disclosing this to users. What else are they tracking they are legally not allowed to tell you about? Camera on all the time maybe? Secret mic recordings?

Don't need to with lineage OS

Which phone works best?

Look up the extensive list.

done, any recommendations?

I usually get a previous year's flagship that supports the version of lineageos that uses microg for the least Google possible.

I ended up with a Oneplus 9 Pro last year and I like it.

GrapheneOS fixes this