So I got back into Nostr after a several month hiatus. It seems like the zap begging has died down. It honestly reminds me of pre-Poast, pre-Elon fedi. It's more laid-back and open-minded (with a slight right-libertarian bias, but that's to be expected), and doesn't have the pedos, glowies, schizos, or dramatards (yet).
@PurpCat I could see CP spammers abusing it to the point where you can't even use it without stumbling upon or accidentally hosting cheese pizza. That's what basically killed ZeroNet, but I'm pretty sure it's possible for nodes to block users that do this shit.
I also like how this set-up basically prevents the whole fediblock culture you see on here. People are forced to block/mute on an individual basis.