How do make friends irl without feeling awkward after a small talk?

So I've been making some online friends on here lately but some of the people I've become online friends with they don't seem to have any interests in me like I do have for them, so it's a bit hard for me at this point since I want to have friends. And maybe ill try to make some irl but it wont work ig because I always feel awkward after a small talk and sometimes idk how to start a conversation and ik it's not the same as making friends on the internet, it's the whole different.