Same! I keep searching for a new solo instance, magazine, whatever. I’d start one, myself, but I can still barely figure out how to use this stuff.

I’m primarily wanting a place where I can read information for both niche and general topics, as well as read the dissent to that information in the same space.

Man, you nailed it, here. The thing I valued most about reddit as an information aggregate was the ability to go into the comments and expect that I could hear some different viewpoints, maybe get some additional information about the original article, etc.

Case in point: digg still exists.