from my experience, when I explain IRL the thing many have jumped too is “what about nazi’s” and I’m a Jew we in Los Angeles and that hasn’t been an issue except for how confusing and abrasive that response is too me, and how hollow that makes the call for safe spaces.
but from what I see people commentating on their experience of nostr on ssb, mastadon or bluesky is it’s all crypto, which is fair, and it’s not commentary about zaps, and it’s not about those on the cutting edge, it’s the culture of memes and terms like pleb, no-coiner, shitcoin being used very often with not much substance, is why people recoil.
I think universe / explore tabs are the entire issue. I like the concept of themed pubs, in reality I joined the poetry pub & floss pub but all my content would have to poetry or Libre for that to actually be useful (maybe this works if the thing is to have a different repo per device, and I only note about knitting from my brother digital embroider’s repo). I think some mechanism for people to declare their interest and then jump into a group where notes have been declared to be about that topic is necessary. Nazis and Jews can knit together, and if I’m lost in the woods you bet I’m drinking from the Jerrycan despite that knitting advice coming from Nazi military technoglogy.