Move to the capital city or the largest city. Find a few people online and meet more through them. Try to find social spaces where queer people gather. Doesn’t have to be queer-specific, leftist spaces are usually also safe.

Lemmy is very often worse than Reddit.

Even the answers in this thread are worse than if an LLM answered this same question.

I recently got a Thule Paramount 24L and it’s quite nice, I have no complaints about it.