
Now that is out of the way, we can start getting into the other myriad reasons of why this game doesn't want you to meet people.
For starters, what group are you in ?
We have Mobius, Mobius pve, Mobius pve Eurasia (and the faction retard support group nobody cares about)
That is just on PC.
There's at least two to three groups on xbx and same on ps4
And as SpaceGhost say, space is big, and even if we where all in one group, and online at the same time, we have barely a small city's worth of people, and we are scattered across and entire galaxy.
That is a lot of:

Most people only congregate in certain areas, like well known places you can buy a lot of gear for discounts, like in Shinrarta Dezhra, but you would have to have the rank of Elite in at least on profession to get in there. And or CG of the week etc or if something special is happening like when new ruins or alien stuff is introduced.
At most CG's people are grinding for "whatever" and most interactions sadly degenerate to throwing insults after crashing into each other in the mail-slot

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Only real solution is to hit up the TS or discord servers and or, probably a bit slower to organise, this forum.
It's not an easy game for socialising but when you do I it can be absolutely worth it.