So I logged on to Nostr again, and once again, the whole "nostr is dead" claims made by the fedi seem to be false. I don't see any bots, CP spam, or any of that stuff.

Granted, I only ever use the web clients and maybe they try their hardest to filter out any relay that hosts such content. I guess the only safe way to use Nostr is with a web client. But honestly, it does feel a lot like old-school fedi just with a slight libertarian bias.