I posted asking for advice on looking for work and lot of suggestions said I should try networking. Well that hard to do at 46 and have no true friends or colleagues to reach out to. Now we all know about dating sites, but is there a open source site that is for meeting for friends, or even networking like LinkedIn but not so much bullshit?
If not how would one go about creating such a space?


Not open-source but we have local C++ meetings once a month and everything is done through https://www.meetup.com/. Try that, look at what’s available around you.
Also try coworking spaces to see if they organize meetings, and also fablabs if there are any where you live.
So it cost money to use and though I am not against it on the whole but is it worth 15 bucks a month?
It’s free for me. I guess it’s the organizers who have to pay to create their meetings.
Going sign up and see what’s what.