When I want to find something interesting outside the usual internet venues (if you compare modern internet to city we degraded from flourishing agglomerations to neolithic times with two-three places where you can go)... I digressed...
So when I'm bored I use search engines like wiby.me or #Marginalia (https://search.marginalia.nu/) with simple search queries to find some obscure personal blog and embrace simplicity of #smallnet.
These small search engines aren't great, so you never know what you find. But it will be something small, personal and AI-free.
And if you use StreetPass for Mastodon extension, you'd probably find new people on Mastodon to subscribe to in the process.