Perhaps we can just accept there will always be gazillions of bots but we have an option to add other profile mutes of people we follow.

So for example I always Mute & Report crap I don’t want to see (Majority is Spam) so perhaps we as users have the option to once follow someone we like, we can also “add” all of that profiles muted accounts onto our own list. This way we have community marking spam and we could easily have own mute lists updated by copying the list of mutes from other users that we know have similar tolerance levels etc.

This way it encourages users to work together maintaining spam lists. and if you follow someone you will both have similar filters to cut out rubbish… It’s only the users who don’t follow you who see the rubbish… That Nostr itself is unable to clear everything …