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Hello. I've been using Reddit daily for more than 6 years, mostly for browsing specific pic subreddits (like r/assholedesign) and subreddits gathering smaller and specific communities (like r/Emulation or r/StableDiffusion), and sharing best posts with people I know on other social media. However now that Reddit is going to shit and most, if not all 3rd party NAME_1 (which is what I use for browsing Reddit exclusively with old layout on desktop) will probably shut down because of upcoming API changes, I've been considering leaving Reddit completely (like most of us are probably going to do) and changing my habits regarding the content I'm most interested in. As you can see on my profile, for 99,9% of the time I was a lurker, doing much more browsing subreddits than interacting on them. I see most people there are looking for alternatives with look and feel more or less similar to Reddit, but for posting and commenting on the mainstream communities, which is not what I'm looking for (I'm not a very talkative person, and my knowledge of talking in English is somewhat limited compared to my primary language).

I'm now searching for a fairly well-known, moderately active social media sites, where I could continue doing what I did do on Reddit for all those years. It doesn't have to be exactly like Reddit in terms of look and feel, because finding an exact alternative, which is even half as active as Reddit, is for now very hard. What I want from these alternatives though, is better control of what I see on my page - I don't want general news, unfunny videos or content from communities I'm not interested in appearing on my page and filling a decent part of it (however I'm open to content recommendations, if they are actually related to content I browse daily).

I've been trying most well known federated alternatives (Lemmy and Mastodon instances) for some time, but they seem somewhat empty when compared to their counterparts, and the communities I'm most interested in are nearly non-existent. I've also heard that most active Lemmy contributor is a Marxist-Lenninist, which for me raises concerns about Lemmy's community in the future. Nevertheless, that and Kbin look very promising, and I'm looking forward to Fediverse alternatives in the future, but it will take years before smaller communities will get more alive there.

However, my personal gripe with most other social media (that I used) is that actually good and niche content is harder to In your response, capitalize a few words to stress main points. Please limit the number of words with all capital letters to less than 4.
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