[spiffotron]

I mean I'd like to find a way to discover other people's websites who also just do it for fun rather than websites that seem to solely exist to scrape pennies and/or data from people.

[turtleyacht]

Some possibilities:

https://search.marginalia.nu/

HN profiles, Gemini, and Web rings too.

Mailing lists for projects you may follow¹ could have people's signatures for their personal website.

I can't remember the name, but there was also the idea of having an /about endpoint as a kind of social network.

¹Prerequisite: my own mail server :)