Make friends? How can we make friends here. I like the interesting response you gave above. The OP mentioned about mining merits and I was a bit confused about what it means to mine merits and if it was possible to do so. Your explanations helped to clarify it is not possible to mine merits but earn merits via hard work, commitment and consistency to contribute to the forum. Now, I also want to understand what it means to make friends here because it's interesting to hear it's possible to make some friends here.
On the contrary, it’s strange to see that this is strange for you.
You have come to a forum where people communicate with each other on all sorts of topics. By communicating sincerely, you will always find those people whose views and opinions will be interesting to you. You have a great opportunity to communicate with people from different countries around the world (is it necessary to explain this in the age of the Internet?) However, if not for communication on the forum, what purpose could you have here? Earnings? I’ll tell you a little secret, which, however, is known to many: your friends may be the people whose posts are closest to you. Your statements, your opinion, and your writing style may also be liked by some and not by others. I don’t want to talk about the fact that many alternative accounts transfer merit among themselves; this is a different matter. Your friends will help you with merit, just as you can later thank people for helpful answers. The forum is a small world in which, if you wish, you can have many friends.