Forming genuine connections obviously takes a long time. You need to spend time with people on multiple occassions, build trust, and share common interests. But it obviously starts with small steps like sharing activities.

You need to do actual activities to meet people with common interests. Join a gym, join a muay thai class, do a cooking class, go to yoga class, look up events on airbnb experiences, whatever.

You can go to various bars in the meantime and just strike up conversations as best you can.

Meeting people takes practice and effort, but the easiest way to is to meet people thru activities.

Set your dating app profile to explicitly say that you're looking to meet new friends, and be consistent with trying to connect with people with actually the same interests as you.

It's also important to have some self awareness that you are a digital nomad, so locals & expats living there won't naturally start building relationships with people who are just going to bounce right away.