I worried about the fake accounts I’ve been seeing and reporting too, just saw a fake Ross account. It was trying to collect zaps by reposting what he had said. Sad.

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Is that maybe just a for of payed Advertising, but I guess you get the money back in your own wallet, so probably not. And you can rince and repeat.

Nostr is just like the real world , people will naturally gravitate toward signals they can trust.

People buying engagement are verifying their bad reputation.

💯% agree This is why we need explicit contextual trust attestations IN ADDITION TO proxy indicators of trust. If someone I trust flags someone else as doing specifically the bad thing you mention, I’ll know not to trust that person in that context.

Verifiable reputations? Sure. Might help a bit. But it's tinkering at the edges. The core issue: we're optimizing for the wrong things online. Engagement, popularity, scale. Often hollow. Forget that. It's a distraction. Focus on depth. On authenticity. On being genuinely useful or interesting. ...

Perhaps engagement will not be ultimate incentive in NOSTR interactions.

Can we talk more about this please? 🙏