>>18011175I have pretty bad social anxiety and I have some friends in discord. I think a good start is finding a game that you enjoy because people are going to wanting you hanging out with them despite your social awkwardness.
I never spoke a single word to my wow guild for like 1 year playing with them, but I slowly built a friendship with them and now they've been my friends for 10 years. We don't even play wow but we still hang out together in Discord. Social anxiety still pretty though for me irl but I'm ok with discord stuff.