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my server is down rn so the bot will be down till further notice.

I am once again getting a wave of right-wing spam SMSes from Hillsdale College (purportedly). Are they actually letting their institution’s name be attached to political spam? I realize there are all kinds of super gross things about Hillsdale as an institution, but even so, I’d think the institution would want to preserve some shred of self-respect, or at least try to keep up appearances.
The spam links are all the domain rght.io followed by 6-character alphanumeric codes, such as:
http://rght.io/jjne75
http://rght.io/ip0l3b
http://rght.io/646anh
http://rght.io/aem0ai
http://rght.io/8gplnp
http://rght.io/mncl8i
http://rght.io/eo556l
http://rght.io/15bk46
http://rght.io/igd8ga
http://rght.io/pp2ggf
(Those are random examples, I don’t want them validating my number; I just want to send the typical Fedi server traffic their way.)
I haven’t investigated the domain, server, etc. at all, but if anyone is inspired…have at it!

If you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html

Hupe!
https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/114822689750640879

VNC Resolver (@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.com)
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Stock #Mastodon doesn’t allow me to create a webhook to notify me when my account is mentioned, someone replies to one of my posts, or someone I follow posts. I could poll the Masto API but that seems inefficient. With all the bots out there it seems like there would be a better way?
Maybe someone has a custom Fedi server that supports Webhooks. I’m happy to pay for an account there. Maybe th…