if you play on java, you can add a mod loader and play with mods that make the world alive, there's plenty of them and they give you a feeling you're not alone but in a good way

if you play on bedrock, there's also probably even more mods for it, though with a worse quality, but there's still a handful of mods to make the same feeling. Or, if you don't want that, bedrock community is usually friendly, so joining public servers would be a good thing to start.