with more things being remote, I honestly believe this is kind of impossible
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
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
tau = 2 × pi I think so it might not be hard to convert