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arfonzo on Nostr: Shout-out to verbiricha for #grimoire, which I used to quickly analyze and dig into ...

Shout-out to for #grimoire, which I used to quickly analyze and dig into nostrmag's dodgy behaviour. (Oh, and also for the emojis which I love so much of course!) :MEOWDY:

With grimoire I could easily find evidence that these accounts are suspicious:

1. Replying to nostrmag's note complimenting their article as a reader.
2. Suddenly a day later, they're mysteriously now working for nostrmag.

Grimoire rocks! https://grimoire.rocks :meow_party:


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I will be openly honest with you, I (and other users) keep seeing so many red flags with 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 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 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.



You even left the "Grok" watermark on some profile pictures:



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

Author Public Key
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