Summary
Five years ago, in early 2019, I stumbled upon the IndieWeb, a movement and community dedicated to modernizing the personal website. Iquickly became enamoured with its ideas and spent the next year revamping mywebsite and blog to make it more compliant with their standards.
ActivitiesPub and Mastodon are just a few of the applications available on the IndieWeb. You can even self-host them, if you've got the time and inclination to do so. It's basically the old school web - with some extra metadata for the sake of interoperability.