diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 60fd7365..5b925406 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -111,8 +111,12 @@ The implementations listed here have demonstrated wire-compatibility, sufficient *If you are the maintainer of an implementation not listed above, and believe that it deserves inclusion by following the same standards of rigor and commitment, your proposal will be welcomed.* +--- + **Warning!** A significant number of hastily launched, incorrect, dubious, directly harmful and, in most cases, entirely LLM-generated fakes of Reticulum implementations are currently being marketed and pushed under polished, but ultimately misleading or outright deceptive claims. Most of these are either quick attention or money grabs, completely unreviewed, incompatible, without maintenance or human oversight, actively trying to fragment the community, or a combination thereof. +--- + For more extensive information on this topic, read the [Brandolini's Reference](https://reticulum.network/manual/brandolinis.html) chapter of the manual. That chapter is roughly 18,000 words in total, and is the polite, measured analysis, designed as an evolving, sectioned reference on these issues. If you would rather just have the short, unfiltered and quite angry version, which consists of an enacted response to one particular manifestation of the phenomenon as a whole, used as an example, you can read [Yes, I am Angry](docs/history/2026_09_18_Yes_I_am_Angry.md). It gets the same point across, in a very different language, if you can handle that sort of communication.