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by Andrew_nenakhov 2434 days ago
Thing is, you don't want regular polling every 15s! It's 5760 requests per day! For EVERY SOURCE! Trust me, your device battery won't like it. Won't like it at all.

> although I had a different angle - an API for a person so you can send me a message ... and we can avoid using email or a proprietary chat alltogether

If you want to exchange messages avoiding email or proprietary chats, you have a wide variety of open chat protocols and free and open source chat applications to choose from. XMPP, Matrix, IRC, mastodon, rocketchat, mattermost, ... dozens of them!