Deploy it also via f-droid, and i (and many others) will use element x.
Sorry Google is a nogo for privacy-aware Users... (hosting my own Matrix with my own notification-network via ntfy is, because i'm aware of privacy-issues with google!)
@jakob@JJGadget they will get rid of the google dependency. During early development it's bonkers to write multiple versions, it'll come, it just takes a lot of time