There’s honestly nothing wrong with any of those options including 2. I get people see algorithm and recommendation and have aneurisms but this space isn’t looking to harm anyone intentionally. If there’s any space we should trust with any kind of algorithms it’s this space as there’s not the same incentives that Big Social has. As long as users can consent and have control.
But to answer your question it would take some hybrid search on top of an aggregator that is explicitly public and respects people’s flags. I know Mastodon is working on a discover service
If liking something makes you a bro then everyone here is a bro. Bluesky is good and tons of people like it. They have a lot of neat ideas so much so many fedi devs are looking to bring some of those ideas to the fedi. Anyways to answer your question the answer is no. The closest you get are Misskey & Forkeys antenna feature and Friendica & Hubzilla’s channels feature.