Primal sidebar is the worst example of what is going on here, and it reinforces the situation. Bitcointwitter 'celebs' are basically the tone and taste setters on here atm.

New users are sort of forced to pay their rent in bitcoin posts if they want to get reach, whether they want to or not.

I'd quite like to see the nostr meta totally change. It's been like this for ages.

For starters you could have a client with a sidebar which downgrades or totally ignores bitcoin 'content' (usually an unfunny meme or slogan). Perhaps taking into account the follower numbers for what is deemed 'trending' ie a post with 70 likes from an account with 30k followers would not be 'trending'. This is why you have banal 'trending' posts on primal, these are read-receipts ( and zaps).