Neocities has been doing a great job at making it easy to keep the spirit of the old web alive. They allow anyone to make whatever kind of site they want, plus make it easy to discover active sites. Try out their search functionality. They give screenshots of every page so you can find the more visually interesting or content-filled ones right away

what do you see on the frontpage? It's more than half random domains and posts by random people about a myriad of topics, news from individual sites (not corporate news centers), and github pages of tools which might as well be 'personal' sites.... and many of the new submissions to the site that get upvoted daily are like articles on this and that publishing sites, which are the same thing just more uniformly designed/less 'personal' looking. Still personal content.

I almost exclusively hunt for personal blogs on the new page nowadays. I really enjoy seeing what people write and what approaches they take to designing their blogs.

Well in that case if you have time, you can check mine https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site

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I agree and hope this trend continues. I think the more lightweight, self-hosted, decentralized sources of information we have, (blogs/etc) the better. I miss the old days of example.com/~user

I am also happy to see less Medium and way way less Facebook. I believe that not everything on the internet has to exist to generate revenue. I appreciated the "old web" where users put up information because they wanted to, not because their first goal was money.

Definitely agree. I've got a lot more value from these kind of sites recently and I enjoy going through them more.

Yeah I think there is a rise in personal blogs/websites and we'll be seeing more of it. It's just hard to discover right now.