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I will be openly honest with you, I (and other users) keep seeing so many red flags with @NostrMagazine that it's hard to ignore: Look, don't get me wrong, I am one of the most bullish people here on #nostr and the ecosystem. I appreciate your responses; respectful disagreement is always appreciated. When @Nostr Compass released a few weeks ago I have been hyped to see them. The difference is in the approach and what appears to be highly questionable activities by you. - I feel that you literally just created a handful of personas. I took 1 minute to check into your "marketing accounts" and found fake profiles, and suspect analytics scores. Note I didn't call your accounts "bots", humans can run fake accounts too--it's kind of irrelevant to me either way. - For example @sarah has never posted any real comments, simply reposting generic content in the past. This type of account is generally created for intention of being resold/repurposed to make accounts seem older than they are. - These accounts have NO TRUST SCORES on profilestr.com and other user trust APIs. This is highly telling. Real accounts that purport to be years old would never have zero scores/unable to be found. - The profile pictures are just stock photography, bios highly fake. Real profiles don't really look like your marketing team, let alone seasoned nostriches. - The exact same thing with all the other account npubs I've listed above, which you claim are all individuals from your "marketing" team. Agis, Madrid, etc.. - Linguistic analysis points to all of these articles written by the same source, be it an AI or single author, I won't get into that, but human authors have differing voices, language usage and flair. - All these accounts look basically the same. Real individuals are vastly different and unique, they don't look like this. image You even left the "Grok" watermark on some profile pictures: image These are just a few of the issues I am seeing. Make of that what you will. :grimace: FYI to some of the others who have voiced concerns @Troy @nout @mar @Ryan
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@Troy @arfonzo We are sorry you see our marketing accounts as spam, they are not, those 8 accounts are of marketing contributors working to get the the articles published visibility in the global feeds. You could write them directly and engage with them on DM or openly in the feeds, each one of their accounts is clearly identified as part of the nostrmag team, we could use bots, we choose not to, so far, and we observe practically every company doing so, visibility and engagement is hard in any social network, notes in global feeds are quickly forgotten, therefore having our team to repost for a day any new article at intervals of around 3 hours seems reasonable, spamming will be high frequency (under 5 minutes). Best wishes and thank you both for your opinions, we humbly disagree. CC: @nout
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For anyone joining the fiasco now, here's the list of some of their accounts I found originally (probably not a full list, these were just the ones spamming my relay):
arfonzo's avatar arfonzo
Update: they just hit my relay with a bunch of fake accounts spamming about their "articles", so I've gone ahead and blacklisted all of them including their main account from publishing on my public relay. For reference if anyone else wants to do the same, these are known fake accounts shilling #nostrmag @NostrMagazine: ``` 'bc58b531ebe1d4b6089ed346fbdb84d00fbcb619c26db6f303f7ffa4b4e4b5b7' // NostrMagazine main account - nostrmag spam '34d2619e68720360854828326d149415e96394b76a93d7c107556d57e5d0d9a8' 'aee9d7ac9343f48e00337a7b97d7ff4d3d7877dacbb3fcccc0dce2a81b2e0502' 'fe5915e97c59b0672a80351bd2e4a89d1414c56a25e74eab9b2ebc9014a8403b' '794833e538ff2acb9149a736cf02d30c6ae0022c76d2dd55b57e540dc2f9c731' 'd9c2ec9765485f7f39a1b59c4ef7578879d2d17908364e1031129cc7b72f692d' '9f59d9117ce44768cc2cf259735455dbeaf1a38ee7c90aec1c5de4e1294f166b' 'a8eeb2053dade88662496c468b92d425e3060af4dc32fc37a25abc99e35c7269' 'e4dd796a3c78d952c509fb9791449c15c837da408650d4a2fbcac0c42f63d1d1' ``` I'll be updating this as they create more fake accounts. :MEOWDY: #relays View quoted note →
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Thank you! For what it's worth I am sorry you subscribed only to discover this afterwards, because I'm sure it may have impacted your decision. When I checked their website it did seem like they were heavily trying to funnel users to subscribe for access. There is nothing wrong with supporting initiatives and subscribing, but I would hope that the services we subscribe to are honest and legitimate in their approach.