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 @๐š๐šข๐šŠ๐š—

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Haha, yeah... it really didn't take more than a few minutes of digging to confirm a lot of my initial feelings about it... I'm more sad than angry to be honest. We actually need some decent publications and coverage.
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.
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