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 It’s a good and nuanced take you had here @Derek Ross and @miljan but doctoring this image is a dumb move that should be called out.

We don’t want top-down protocol-level moderation, partly that’s why many of us are here. That means that when someone misbehaves it should be called out. And here, specifically, doctoring a picture to trash someone’s product is simply bad.

I said this to @semisol privately and probably publicly too in the past; I don’t understand why he’s so fixated on Primal but nothing speaks louder than code and we have the opportunity of building our individual visions for nostr.

Don’t get distracted, focus on building. 
 Agreed, there isn’t an easy fix for this stuff but we should at least pretend to be adults. Derek makes good arguments 
 Do you dislike political satire cartoons?

Semi was clearly expressing himself using art. This is not an attack on a person. It’s a critique of a website. If you don’t want your product critiqued, you shouldn’t build a public product. 

Generative AI will be much more malicious than this or the previous “attack”. 

Furthermore, I find it weak and off putting to cry every time someone critiques your product. Not the sign off quality leadership. Not that my personal opinion matters much there. 
 Obvious disinformation campaign with malicious intent is not a critique. 
 Sure. Define “malicious”. Define “campaign”. That’s a word salad of victim mentality thinking. 

Playing the victim card is a beta move. Claim it’s false and carry on. Don’t pontificate about how “attacked” you are. 

If a cat picture on the internet rattles your bones, wait until your product brings the ire of a government or state sponsored “attack”. 

Do better. 
 Another point, “Obvious”. So it very clear it’s false? That’s called satire. 
 This reads like a main stream media headline. 
 👀 wtf is happening  
 One cat is getting a lot of attention. The last update from Primal was over a month ago. 
 That cat will never not be distracted