I’d recommend going to a local meetup around something you’re interested in or think you might be interested in. If you’re looking to make friends online, I th

I’d recommend going to a local meetup around something you’re interested in or think you might be interested in. If you’re looking to make friends online, I think if you find a community for whatever you’re interested in or passionate about and ask yourself how could I help this community? even if it’s just being friendly and giving people advice on something, you understand that they don’t you can get to meet really interesting people and you can form longtime friendships with them. Around 11 years ago I was working with some software in my job that I hadn’t used before and found quite frustrating in places, so I joined the official forum and started asking questions, over period period of time I became quite friendly with a few of the folks on there and to this day, I’m still really good friends with one - despite the fact, he’s across the other side of the world and more than twice my age (in fact, he’s now retired). I have a few other stories similar to that.