Want to make friends this year, but not sure how to keep

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Hey
So this year as Ive done every other year, I start with the desire to make friends, at the moment I have two friends I talk to regularly. One semi local and one in another country. I really do appreciate those friends, but I can't help feeling lonely at times.

The thing is, when I'm talking with people, I don't really know what to talk about, I dislike heavy subjects like trauma dumping, and I'm not really good at small talk. So that eliminates a wide variety of potential conversation topics. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for in a friend, I enjoy learning about other people, as well as fighting away the lonely feeling. I just don't really know how to maintain the friendships once we've gotten past the introduction stage.