I have a few ideas on how to accomplish the above goal that vary in complexity, but im curious to hear some other takes on this.
One idea that i had was to form an on campus, unofficial self-improvement bookclub. During discussions of "chad" books that are still socially acceptable(stuff like junger and mishima) I would ask probing open ended questions. Based on the responses, I would continue private discussion with those that answered favorably, and then organically form a circle of those who passed my filters.
but my approach in spite of that is finding general nonspecific events that are tangentially related to a specific interest. For example, looking for conservatives and thus going to like Republican events. You get fakes like neocons and other people, but then might find some likeminded people as well
but again idk about everyone else but a lot of these events and groups seem no good to me so in practice I have not necessarily been connecting with people IRL as much as easily lately
another route would be going to completely generic events that have lots of people and then trying to find people based on clothes they wear or striking up conversations with random people and seeing if they have shared interests or know people with shared interests