I make friends and then I share my tastes ... sometimes they are not the same but opening up generates some confidence!

sorry i dont speak english ,,i use the goole translator

be myself and just accept the part where it hurts someone

I try to talk to the other artists

If you're looking at the technical side of an online friendship it's a frequency thing, amount of contact over time. But just like any friendship you've also got this mutual sacrifice where you both want to spend time and effort to improve each other's situation. For artists I think that's talking, commenting and sharing what we make in an honest way.

I think friends mostly make each other's lives better rather than worse? Does that make sense?

I mostly try to talk with them, if i get a conversation going usually you can find some common interest etc.
If they dont respond though then it's pretty much a lost cause. can't really get to know a person who wont respond back.

I pull my shirt open and expose my soft underbelly. This display shows trust because we both know my potential friend could disembowel me in such a vulnerable position.

Also it helps to hate the same internet personalities so you can talk shit on them together.

Thank you friends I will implement these strategies and tips.

hit them with your elbow

My default state of mind is that the majority of human beings are cowards and are too afraid to commit anything of themselves to other people for fear of being rejected and for losing face in the eyes of people they don’t even know. This particular type of low confidence is insidious because it prevents us from pursuing one of the greatest pleasures life has to offer: being confident that other people enjoy our company.

You’re right. People aren’t going to make themselves your friend because they don’t know you and are afraid of you. Unless you present yourself as a completely docile creature, barely human in its lack of threat, then nobody is going to talk to you or get to know you. They don’t ask questions, they don’t ask what your interests are, and they don’t give you anything about themselves in order to facilitate a human connection. It’s impossible to have a healthy relationship with anyone if each person is collectively afraid of being denigrated for, I don’t know, what their interests are, too.

One time someone slid into my Twitter DMs with exceptional enthusiasm and tried to get to know me. I admonished them for having too much energy. I was an idiot. I told them I didn’t like how they were talking to me, even though today I realise that if more people were like that person there, trying to form actual connections with actual people, then we would be in a more pleasant state of affairs than we’ve experienced in our online age.

All there is to it, I guess, is to take a legitimate interest in someone, send them a message, talk with them, and pray their personality is both interesting and courteous enough to take up your offer of conversation. You would be surprised at the amount of scared, paranoid people out there too afraid to talk to strangers for fear of some unspecified danger. I’ve had too many run-ins with them, myself. Maybe it’s because I write funny.

Well, good luck. It’s nice to have fans, but it’s even nicer to have friends.

In my experience, the easiest way is to join a group chat for your hobby.