>>362907536
Try to get into a smaller regular meetup, like pypy dancing, exercise, mahjong, movie watching or whatever else. Talk to people there, get into a friend group. Then keep up the link you have just made, join on them, talk to their friends and then to friends of their friends etc. Go to events, try to be around. Jumping straight into a 50+ people instance is gonna be hard simply because it's loud and chaotic, though probably not impossible since people tend to cluster into closer friend groups anyway. It's easier to strike up a conversation when you have some kind of common activity besides druinking and small talk, hence why smaller directed events are better for starting out.