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What's stopping someone from writing a program that iterates through all of the different ntfy topics with spam messages?

e.g. curl -d "Visit my site spammer.com for your chance to win $100" ntfy.sh/{phil_alerts,controversial,topic3,topic4, etc...}



Do it and you shall find out :-)

I have pretty rigorous rate limiting based on IP address [1]. If you have lots of IP addresses at your disposal, I may have a problem. So far it's been fine.

[1] https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#limitations




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