**Do you know your developer?**
One of the strongest protections of someone's work is PoW and the network effects it generates as it spreads in the community. As long as we stay connected to the builders, no one should be able to come, clone a project, and take all the credit for other people's work.
That doesn't mean people will not try. Larry Salibra cloned Damus: Its code, name, logo and all. Salibra shared the clone in the now infamous note. #[2]
Salibra seems to have tried to steal Christmas from #[3] and the team behind him at Damus.
The #nostr community, in a shower of nostr notes, shielded the real #[5]
PoW is the reputation. Network effects the shield. Don't trust, verify.