Help making new friends for a shy person?

How do you make friends?

I'm really shy, not sporty, I don't drink, and I don't have any particular skills/interests that I'm super into. I mean I like things but usually it feels like on a surface level. For example I like music, and video games, and tv/movies, but I don't really know too much about them. I like crafty/art things but I don't feel too good at them.

But, I also want to make friends. I don't have any friends where I live, and in the past I've noticed that any friends I had, was because they approached me first, and it was mostly because I was in close proximity to them (aka school). But now that I'm not in school, it feels a lot harder to meet people and make friends.

Does anyone have any ideas how to meet people? It just feels so hard because I've got a bit of social anxiety and I'm also usually pretty content to just stay at home, but there are more and more times when I feel like I'm wasting my life, or I feel like I want people to hang out with and do stuff with....