Yes, most of the less-active accounts are lurkers who post an old meme once per week or repost everything the Big 10 accounts post. As if everyone weren't already following the Big 10 themselves, so you end up with a feed full of reposts and tired memes, but devoid of original information.

There are people here following thousands of npubs, but their feed is basically dead. More effective to just find someone who reposts things you are interested in and allow them to curate your feed. 

 Yeah, good advice.

You basically hope that any new person knows what signing up to a social media is like, and they'll have to dig to find anything. It's slightly different cos nostr is sort of pitched as being different. And it's also slightly different cos your feed is prone to be drowned in The One Topic without some discernment. 

 Yeah, I like The Topic That Shall Not Be Named, but I don't want to see only that and I've had to dig hard for the other stuff. 

 Exactly this.