A group of us made it through Hands on ML last year.
https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml3
But that group didn’t want to do heavy theory but someone from another Meetup did so I invited them to our group.
Then someone who didn’t want to do the theory changed their mind.
Try meeting people online with a well-defined common goal.
For example, not simply “I want to learn machine learning” but I want to study a particular book or MOOC.
Getting people to agree can be difficult. No one else in my group wants to do Kaggle, for instance. Lots of cool project ideas that don’t go anywhere.
Discord seems like it should be the perfect place to meet people but most servers aren’t very active.
Here’s an OpenCourseWare server I found a few days ago that’s disappointingly not very active:
Ideally math, physics, writing, history, or whatever could be served by dedicated servers.