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  1. Mashable: Spotify deletes 500K streams of popular song for suspected Kalshi, Polymarket user manipulation. “Last week, Kalshi gave Todd a 2.5 percent chance of having the number one charting Spotify song by the end of June. Earlier this week, in the final days of the month, artificial streaming manipulation caused Todd’s song to skyrocket 70 percent to the top of the charts within a 24-hour […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/mashable-spotify-deletes-500k-streams-of-popular-song-for-suspected-kalshi-polymarket-user-manipulation/
  2. Mashable: Spotify deletes 500K streams of popular song for suspected Kalshi, Polymarket user manipulation. “Last week, Kalshi gave Todd a 2.5 percent chance of having the number one charting Spotify song by the end of June. Earlier this week, in the final days of the month, artificial streaming manipulation caused Todd’s song to skyrocket 70 percent to the top of the charts within a 24-hour […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/mashable-spotify-deletes-500k-streams-of-popular-song-for-suspected-kalshi-polymarket-user-manipulation/
  3. Mashable: Spotify deletes 500K streams of popular song for suspected Kalshi, Polymarket user manipulation. “Last week, Kalshi gave Todd a 2.5 percent chance of having the number one charting Spotify song by the end of June. Earlier this week, in the final days of the month, artificial streaming manipulation caused Todd’s song to skyrocket 70 percent to the top of the charts within a 24-hour […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/mashable-spotify-deletes-500k-streams-of-popular-song-for-suspected-kalshi-polymarket-user-manipulation/
  4. Mashable: Spotify deletes 500K streams of popular song for suspected Kalshi, Polymarket user manipulation. “Last week, Kalshi gave Todd a 2.5 percent chance of having the number one charting Spotify song by the end of June. Earlier this week, in the final days of the month, artificial streaming manipulation caused Todd’s song to skyrocket 70 percent to the top of the charts within a 24-hour […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/mashable-spotify-deletes-500k-streams-of-popular-song-for-suspected-kalshi-polymarket-user-manipulation/
  5. Mashable: Spotify deletes 500K streams of popular song for suspected Kalshi, Polymarket user manipulation. “Last week, Kalshi gave Todd a 2.5 percent chance of having the number one charting Spotify song by the end of June. Earlier this week, in the final days of the month, artificial streaming manipulation caused Todd’s song to skyrocket 70 percent to the top of the charts within a 24-hour […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/mashable-spotify-deletes-500k-streams-of-popular-song-for-suspected-kalshi-polymarket-user-manipulation/
  6. @gaycookie Nah...

    Personally I'd literally block all non-consumer-facing #ISP's to prevent #botting and #Spamming like #BruteForcing #Credentials.

    Shure that'll inconvenience some users like you and me but Microsoft doesn"t gove a damn about something >99% of users won't experience ever...

  7. The Announcement of the #Pi5 has kinda seem to stop the constant #botting by #scalpers on @Raspberry_Pi stock, and official #Distributors seem to be able to offer decent quantities in stock, based off @rpilocator 's data and a few checks...
    rpilocator.com/

  8. @yassie_j exactly...
    mstdn.social/@kkarhan/11091805

    For #bots and those operating them, #MachineTime is the cost-creating factor, thus they want to speedrun their shit to maximize #botting effectivity with the least amount of [billable!] computation time [at their hosters!]...

  9. @trashheap @[email protected] The worse part of this is that their are the problem, and people buying from said instead of the distributors, when the only winning move is to starve those into insolvency.

    youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm

  10. @trashheap @Raspberry_Pi The worse part of this is that #scalpers #botting their #distributors are the problem, and people buying from said #ValueRemoving #rentseekers instead of the distributors, when the only winning move is to starve those into insolvency.

    youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm

  11. @trashheap @Raspberry_Pi The worse part of this is that #scalpers #botting their #distributors are the problem, and people buying from said #ValueRemoving #rentseekers instead of the distributors, when the only winning move is to starve those into insolvency.

    youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm

  12. @ppatel #Captchas in general should be outlawed as #antiAccessibility features!

    AFAIK, @stux combats #botting via verification eMail and rate-limiting registrations...

  13. Anyone have experience using akkoma.py? I couldn't get it work, but it could be because my server doesn't allow it (I'm not sure if it does or does not). This is not for this account.

    #api #help #programming #scripting #Mastodon #botting #automating #datascience #question

  14. Anyone have experience using akkoma.py? I couldn't get it work, but it could be because my server doesn't allow it (I'm not sure if it does or does not). This is not for this account.

    #api #help #programming #scripting #Mastodon #botting #automating #datascience #question