My father always told me: "If you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, likeminded people will find you themselves." And only recently have I realized that this principle works everywhere.
There's a tik tok video about knowing when to time your criticism. He spoke about going to a friend's play and he thought it was so terrible. However at the end of the show he held his comment and just said something like thanks for inviting me because she was so happy