if it means anything, i've seen this guy and he has a lot of followers but not a lot of sense popularity especially in the context of stupid engagement based trending algorithms like primal uses leads to amplification of teh most outrageous and stupid so, my advice is, ignore him for now, and maybe later you remove his ignore and he's got bored with fudding your work

Pfft. You must not get around much. There's plenty of BS on nostr, it's just higher level BS than other corners of the internet. Cool. That's a good goal. I hope you can stick with that in the long run. I hope I'm wrong, but, I'll likely never know.