Yeah, I'm realizing just how trash the global feed is, but there doesn't seem to be another obvious way to find people and tags to follow or content of interest. Amethyst doesn't make any alternative suggestions, so to the uninformed newbie, the only real choice is to check out global, which feels like finding a pile of dog shit and intentionally stepping in it. I've built up some tags and found a few people to try following, but I've never even heard of a DVM until now, so I'll check that out, thanks.

And as for the kids, I don't wanna ruin stuff just for them, but they're gonna do the same thing I did, start browsing global because they don't know any better, and they're gonna run into the Nazis I found. Or the literal self professed pedo who posted CP that I found. Thankfully, his content got pulled off the hosting servers because I didn't need to actually see that shit. Global is a toxic shithole, and the solution is NOT to moderate the whole thing, but I don't think that means there's no room for something like individually moderated relays. Users would be free to just leave them if they disagree with the moderation policies, but users who want it could have the option to use it, and parents could have a family friendly option to ease their kids into nostr. Eventually, the protections will need to come off, and the kids will need to learn how to identify and avoid such content and why it's wrong, but just tossing them on nostr with the global feed and nobody followed is like teaching a kid to swim in the middle of the ocean with a storm on the horizon.