I have been enjoying FeedSeer for better Mastodon link surfacing. It generates a custom news feed based on accounts you follow (Mastodon generates the same trending news for your entire server so it's less customized to you specifically). They have recently introduced a paid tier that I plan to support.
https://news.feedseer.com/about
Getting ahead of the replies: I believe this works via the Mastodon API rather than ActivityPub, so if you're not on Masto or a fork thereof you're likely out of luck.
@darius lol, the thing I wanted searchtodon to become, the tech will be super similar, but somehow this is ok? đź«