As a newer user I only partially agree. The community isn't why I came here. I know nobody on here so it wasnt a "I really want to follow X but they only post on Nostr". Its the idea of a platform immune to all the censorship and digital ID stuff that makes me want to use it. But at the same time it had nobody on it there would be no point in using it.

What does help bigtime is that this community while quite one sided in their interests with the majority being bitcoiners are friendly and seem tollerant people. While Mastodon was the most toxic place I have ever been to. I got slandered as a nazi and banned for suggesting I should be able to follow a content creator on an instance that the creators of Mastodon didn't like. Not only did I get defamed by the tusky developer who crippled the app not to work with that instance I got banned within 5 minutes for merely suggesting it on a very large mastodon instance.

Here its not like that. They can't dog pile me to get rid of me because there is no admin that can boot me off. As a result those power tripping psycho's don't come here as they have no power here. And what you then see is that the people who do come here are the ones who value civil discussion even if they don't agree. The whole zap thing encourages people to be civil, so does the anti censorship.

Personally I havent seen spam. At least not worse than Mastodon used to be. I just know that on any platform chronological global timelines are a bad idea. So I don't take the posts that are there to be an issue with the platform. Instead I follow people I come across in the comments or look at who the people I follow are following.