I actually forget that amethyst as a 'conversations' tab as home feed option. Which is actually much better to look at for possible interesting threads and peoplr than 'trending'.

(I am relay-clueless so global feed is mostly unusable to me lol)

But a lot of this goes back to a lack of topic-based mechanisms/clients. You have to follow people here, when you could be better off, depending on what you want from Nostr, perhaps subscribing to topic feeds instead.