Update docs with information about push notifications

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Returns notifications for the authenticated user. Each notification has an `id`, a `type` (mention, reblog, favourite, follow), an `account` which it came *from*, and in case of mention, reblog and favourite also a `status`.
**GET /api/v1/notifications/:id**
Returns single notification.
**POST /api/v1/notifications/clear**
Clears all of user's notifications.
### Following a remote user
**POST /api/v1/follows**
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These values should be requested in the app itself from the API for each new app install + mastodon domain combo, and stored in the app for future requests.
**POST /api/v1/devices/register**
Form data:
- `registration_id`: Device token (also called registration token/registration ID)
Apps can use Firebase Cloud Messaging to receive push notifications from the instances, given that the instance admin has acquired a Firebase API key. More in [push notifications](Push-notifications.md). This method requires a user context, i.e. your app will receive notifications for the authorized user.
**POST /api/v1/devices/unregister**
Form data:
- `registration_id`: Device token (also called registration token/registration ID)
To remove the device from receiving push notifications for the user.
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## Entities

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Push notifications
==================
Mastodon can communicate with the Firebase Cloud Messaging API to send push notifications to apps on users' devices. For this to work, these conditions must be met:
* Responsibility of an instance owner: `FCM_API_KEY` set on the instance. This can be obtained on the Firebase dashboard, in project settings, under Cloud Messaging, as "server key"
* Responsibility of the app developer: Firebase added/enabled in the Android/iOS app. [See Guide](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/)
When the app obtains/refreshes a registration ID from Firebase, it needs to send that ID to the `/api/v1/devices/register` endpoint of the authorized user's instance via a POST request. The app can opt out of notifications by sending a similiar request with `unregister` instead of `register`.
The push notifications will be triggered by the notifications of the type you can normally find in `/api/v1/notifications`. However, the push notifications will not contain any inline content. They will contain JSON data of this format ("12" is an example value):
```json
{ notification_id: 12 }
```
Your app can then retrieve the actual content of the notification from the `/api/v1/notifications/12` API endpoint.