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I find that in times of my life when I felt lonely, there were usually other issues that led to that feeling beyond the actual lack of people.
Sometimes, the answer isn’t to seek out friends but to try to figure out how to become a person that people would want to be friends with. Part of that is putting yourself out there, but that will be more successful if it comes from a place of self improvement.
A lot of the time it was technically ‘up’, but just non-functional/unusable.
Most common for me was just not being able to do anything but look at the front page, couldn’t click on anything without errors.