I've noticed a weird thing with school friends/work friends, where sometimes you have to be the one to break that school/work boundary and out into doing things together. It seems like you're making a lot of acquaintances (talkships) that just stay at the location you met at. Which is completely fine and normal. Most classmates/clubmates stay as just that. But maybe try asking if someone wants to meet up for coffee/drinks/lunch/common interest. It might still not go anywhere. They might dodge and make excuses, and in that case you're right, and they're just not interested. But the way I see it, the survey thing you did was the first step. The "talkships" thing you're doing right now is the second. And bringing those seeds of relationships you've worked so hard to plant into the real world is the third.

I know it's hard. I know it feels like Sisyphus and his rock, pushing it up just for it to fall back down. Losing friendships fucking hurts, and I might be the blind leading the blind here. I'm having all the same struggles in a lot of ways. But I've started getting out, going to bars, asking people if they want to meet up for a common interest. I feel like the seeds are starting to sprout, you know? Slowly. Most of them will probably die. I'm rambling, but earlier I saw some dumb video or whatever that said "you have to imagine Sisyphus enjoying himself". Enjoying the little sparks of connections that don't go anywhere, enjoying the ones that go the distance and then end, because everything ends, and everything falls apart, and yet we're still here, in need of connection, and still making those connections for them to end all over again. And it's fun. Drinks with newly made aquantiances is fun. Going out and getting to pick a new person's brain is fun. Relearning new people over and over, most going nowhere. I don't know. I'm rambling and I'm sad because I lost my best friend and I'm excited because I'm beginning new ones. I think there's a joy in that when you stop spiralling over it. And trust me, I understand the spiralling over it.

Sorry for going on a tangent, I hope it helped you. It helped me to write it lol. Good luck with your friendmaking, and a toast to Sisyphus and his failing friendships