..how do you guys make online friends? 유-유

This is gonna sound dumb, but anyways, i rly wanna make more friends but there's a big problem, i'm INCREDIBLY shy. i dont really know how to approach people let alone talk to them. i genuinely cannot be in a voicecall 1 on 1, when pressured to speak up i get so insanely nervous, and even just texting i often just dunno what to say? like say i'm in a discord server and looking for ppl to play games with it's like, what am i supposed to even write up. i'm guessing the solution is just exposure, just do it, but it's so damn scary, was just wondering if anyone has any tips? :/

reallyy sucks achieving stuff in games that i'm kinda proud of but not having anyone to share it with ;-; i used to be pretty known in a couple games but never kept any friends due to my distant nature, also had to cut out a lot of people (all men tbh) due to them always wanting "more" after a couple weeks, it's like clockwork honestly

anyways yea i could use some advice 😭

edit: ty for the advice so far already guys :) i'll make sure to listen to all of it!!