Hi Crowley!
Be yourself!

The best advice I can give you is to strive for personal success and achievement. Spend time doing what you truly enjoying doing, and be good at it. Whatever it may be, make it a goal to be the very best at it! With that, comes community engagement. Per say, if you're big on the stock market you can share your knowledge amongst the community within the stocks discussion forum and make a character out of yourself as the stock expert! Regardless of that example, they're a plentiful amount of things you can excel at.

In my honest opinion, the hidden gem that lies within our community is the fact that there's so many options and opportunities for players to interact and connect with each other whether that be on an economic level or not.

Perhaps you could try coming up with a large scale goal? Like constructing a massive structure that could be unique to you! For example, loganeric taking up on the idea of creating a spawn replica with the help of the community, or even @SnDxBruh with his idea of creating some of the survival games maps. There's an endless amount of possibilities. You just have to use a bit of that creativity that's stored up in your head ;)

It's not so hard to engage with the community, you just need to put some effort in to thinking about how you want to engage. Whether it be building a character, or simply participating in server wide activities and being the best you can be. Just be sure you're having fun! That's what matters right? Having fun is what it's all about. I can assure you, if you find something you enjoy doing and make it a thing others will be interested.

Anyway, I truly hope I answered your question. I know I kinda swayed around it a bit, but I'm hoping it's still all there.