I guess you should keep on trying any method you can until you finally hit something you like with people you get along with really well. I had the same problem at around 24. I tried craigslist and I actually made a good friend off it for about year before he moved for a job. Other craigslist experiences haven't been that great. A lot of flakes really. I tried New Jersey reddit meetups and they were always cool and I met some good people but nothing really close even though I still contact some people I have met from time to time.

One of the strangest thing that led me to meeting a lot of new people was when I used to leave notes of poetry in random places with my email on it and one day, I was contacted by a slam master of a local poetry slam who told me to try poetry slams as he believed I had the talent to do so. I did and I quickly became a local favorite and I have met a lot of great people. Also I have started to meet some other people I knew from this site I went on for many years called GameFAQS which is a video game website. One day, I randomly found out that some people from around my area were meeting up, so I decided to meet up with them and it was really great and I am starting to get know them really well since we have a groupme chat where we often interacted with one another. If you put yourself out there enough, you should find the people that you are looking for as the world is a big place afterall.