The frontpage is pretty bad. In my experience smaller subreddits are still good quality. There's a reason why people add 'reddit' to their search queries after all.
Yeah, public reddit is terrible, but make an account, unsubscribe the default subreddits and subscribe to smaller subreddits, and it can be awesome. A selection of subreddits I can recommend (depending on your interests of course):
bodyweightfitness, breadit, dataisbeautiful, digitalnomad, onebag, Ultralight, walkablecities, cozy_places, artisanvideos, relationship_advice, bestof, financialindependence, gamedev, gamedesign, HighQualityGifs, museum, Pareidolia, programming, programmer_humor, space, startups, SaaS, webdev, science