Online, you might have better luck meeting people on Discord servers relevant to your interests, or on tagmap. Also HelloTalk if you are learning a language or

Online, you might have better luck meeting people on Discord servers relevant to your interests, or on tagmap. Also HelloTalk if you are learning a language or teaching one. Twitter can sometimes be fruitful too (but slow going at first) if you find the right follows and don't treat it as a combat zone. Good search queries can be helpful to bootstrap. Unfollow, mute, and block liberally.