Not sure what are your hobbies (if any). If you have some passion that you're unable to share, I'd advise actively looking for people with a similar taste online.
It's usually quite easier to make friends from unknown people sharing a similar taste than to convert your existing social group to what you like.
Also, if you're kinda good at something, googling some pedagogy basics and teaching it for free in your spare time will make you meet grateful people.
>If you have some passion that you're unable to share
I like firearms - but it's frowned upon to like guns in the UK. There's nothing on meetup.com for that
I like animals - not sure that actually translates well into an activity to share with others though
I used to play online games during my time at school - even went to a few LAN parties - but I'm not so good. After a long time (maybe a year - or more), I just stopped trying as I wasn't having fun. I wasn't getting invited much anyway since people don't want to play with someone who isn't very good
>Also, if you're kinda good at something, googling some pedagogy basics and teaching it for free in your spare time will make you meet grateful people.
I can teach you to write code and shoot guns
For the former, I already give talks at my local user group. I suppose I could try to advertise explicitly to beginners? I usually teach intermediate-to-advanced people (especially FP, monads, clean code, security, encryption)
For the latter, nobody (around me anyway) wants to learn
It's usually quite easier to make friends from unknown people sharing a similar taste than to convert your existing social group to what you like.
Also, if you're kinda good at something, googling some pedagogy basics and teaching it for free in your spare time will make you meet grateful people.