> I'm using it wrong
Almost certainly
> Global is fucked
Yeah, but so is global on fedi. You can still open it up and find a few good accounts in an hour of doom scrolling. After you block a handful of constant spam bots on here, you realise the paucity of active posting going on (at least based on what I'm seeing in my client).
Part of the above may be just the client messing with things though. When people are posting I still don't seem to get it in my feed most of the time and have to check individual accounts to see posts. Also I don't think the relays are syncing properly. I have been reading posts while connected to say 15 relays and then the client connects to additional relays so I'm connected to 30 relays and the posts disappear. I unfollowed an account on here when I realised it was a fedi account rather than a nostr account, but 1 week later sometimes on certain relays it will be dropped into my feed. I only got a notification of your reply once it was nearly 30 mins old.
Having said that I'm not running away yet, just having a whinge.