How many... I only heard of tinder and linkedin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can confirm most of these are for either work, or sex. You'll find friends by joining normal servers like FA's discord server, or other servers of similar interest. Or by means of a similar nature focused on community.

For sex I am on another continent :"D I am just looking for an interest not related to furry and drawings, but to books. In addition to this I want to find people with common tastes and, communicating with them, learn to speak English myself, that is, have close contact with native speakers.
Or I'm just stupid and looking in the wrong place

I wouldn't mind having a chat with you - I only have discord and telegram however.

I prefer Tg and Dis)

Well, if you wanna get in contact drop me a note and I can send my details across :)

Nah I don't think you're stupid, but some of these sources are definitely not what I imagine you'll find that in. While I know you mentioned not wanting it to be furry centric, the Furry fandom is just a small part of what someone might be interested, so you still might find what you mentioned within the furry servers advertised across the site or on FA's own discord server. Finding large circles and carving smaller ones out for yourself is part of the effort of creating friendships. As it stands, you're reaching into a far too broad range of options to see many meaningful results. But hey, by all means. Stranger things have happened.

I only use Second Life and Discord, sorry.

I haven't been to Second Life for a long time
Are you using regular or firestorm?

Firestorm, there's also Alchemy these days if you want to try and get back into it but Firestorm still has the most function.

Did you want to try and hang out on there?

I have Firestorm. I just thought SL had been abandoned by people for a long time

Nope! We're still alive and kicking. Hear it all the time though.

ahahah
My nick in sl : marylarks
https://my.secondlife.com/MaryLarks
I'll come online sometime ahah

Sent a friend request!

The furry community on SL is very small, but it still exists. Some users stopped using SL and migrated to VRChat while others switched to more RL :3

SL is still suffering from being slow, even on beefy hardware. Well, they still suffer from questionable decisions, like using JPEG2000 for texture compression and sticking to OpenGL. The performance got a bit better, but not by much, new visual effects (like accurate reflections) eat up that performance gain from optimisation. SL would gain a lot by switching to the Vulkan API.

I was on Bumble for a while to try making friends, it felt VERY awkward to use it that way considering it's primarily used for finding dates. I really only friend matched with someone once and we haven't spoken since we met - it was VERY very awkward.

I did find my partner there though. So I suppose it did its job right in that regard...

As for fluent English-speaking friends... I hate to be that loser, but I am kinda looking for more friends myself. Would love to put myself out there as an option c:

I'll write you a telegram :D

Ziprecuiter, Indeed, Glassdoor, and LinkedIn are all job related. And I have only heard of Tinder and OkCupid.

Maybe I’m old, but people used to join local Facebook groups for that kind of thing

Like you, I have a LinkedIn but yeah just for jobs.

It's been chaotic time in the recent past for moving and job changes. You mentioning interest in books reminds me that I need to get back into reading two different book series.

You already got my email but should be kept to art only.

If you want to reach out and chat. I have discord available, can exchange photos of our cats since we have them.

I have never heard of any single of those XD

I don't use any of those, sorry. 7 years ago when searching for a job I think I used Indeed a couple times, and might have used Glassdoor once, but that's it. I don't know that the job search websites would be good for finding friends, but the dating sites might let you set the "what I'm looking for" thing to show you're just looking for friends. I never use dating sites so I don't know how any of them work. (The last one I tried was FurryMate and that turned out to be a total scam.)

Просто пиши в личку на ФА всем подряд. Так будет лучше, чем в том дерьме плавать.

Ору

А чего смеяться-то? Я так и делаю.

Если хочешь, можешь мне написать.

Не хочу "спам легендой" стать ахаха

Работает, между прочим.

Telegram is a pretty okay place to talk with people.
I will say a lot of these though really do appear to be for job searches or for hooking up/meeting partners.

Discord or VRChat is also not a bad place to find people in communities that share you interests. Just got to be mindful and find a good place to inhabit.

You could also make your own community, discord or otherwise, build a community and make channels and the like for things that interest you.

Beyond that, you can always go searching around to find people on some social medias or online forums. Search around, find message boards, or communities that cater your interests and connect with people that way. You can also likely find... regional communities. Slowly get to know people, and maybe figure out ways to meet up and stuff.

Apologies if anything I've said is too forward. Wish you the best of luck. And if you wanna talk to some random on the interwebs, you're welcome to drop me a line on tg or disc.