Your frustration is very understandable. Global spam is an issue still unless you sign up for a paid relay. But that’s not new user friendly at all…

The best thing to do is to follow someone, look through their list of follow and follow them too. Then you can explore hashtags to see what’s there.

What I think we need is a list of topics to follow in onboarding (when you first sign up).

Also adding bios under user names in the follow lists