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you can follow hashtags. I follow #opensource and a few other interests and I’ve found some interesting stuff you don’t generally see in other places. but yes, the format is completely different and I find lemmy allows for better discussion than Mastodon.

Checkout Notesnook. I’ve tried most of the ones you’ve listed and have been really enjoying how well it works compared to the competition considering its end-to-end encrypted.

A few features:

• Clients and server are open source.
• End-to-end encrypted note syncing.
• You can publish public notes.
• You can publish privates notes that require a password to view.
• You can self-host the sync server.
• You can self-host the publishing server.
• Full offline mode.
• At rest encryption.
• Multi-platform clients with feature parity (Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, MacOS, Web).
• Most if not all of the general features you’d expect from a notes taking application.

One thing I really like about the project is how open they are about what they’re doing, why they’re doing it and what the future holds. It’s been great seeing their roadmap (https://notesnook.com/roadmap/) and seeing promised features land with new ones being added, and I’ve only been using it for less than a year now!