Personal home pages are sweet and nostalgic. But they need to be indexed somewhere or they're only as big as the network of people who the page creator can give their card to.
There used to be things called webrings. If lots of self-hosted independent sites are to become a thing again, it might be worth resurrecting and improving that sort of technology.
You can see hints of Fediverse-like thinking in them even though it's (low)tech from long before.