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Get into HAM radio. I have wayyyyyy to much hobbies as is.
May I interest you in LoRa stuff? Meshcore seems to be the big thing now. No license, and 95% of the traffic is "can you hear me? I can hear you". So basically the same as ham radio.
I have been wanting to..but theres no one to really talk to around here and my friends would think I'm a nutter for trying to get them on it 😅
https://meshcore.io/map https://meshmap.net/
If you can make it to a repeater that is in a good spot, there are decent chances you would reach someone. Now, of course, repeaters require someone to set them up and maintain them. If you live in the middle of nowhere or in a country with super strict radio laws (like Belarus or India), you are mostly out of luck. But if you live in a place where it is illegal, chances are that ham radio will not be trouble-free either, to put it mildly.
My experience from radio scanner use is that most of what hams actually do with their radios is talk with other hams about ham radios. :-)
Using a scanner all across the US during road trips, ham people have only 3 topics:
I love it
Is there not some kind of regulation that limits the topics that can be discussed over amateur radio ? Iirc its restricted to, well the radio equipment and other hobby stuff
IIRC they can't use it for commercial use, and I think that they may not be able to encrypt it. But in theory, they could talk about pretty much anything. Like, it could span everything that you might see on Reddit or something like that. But...when you get a lot of people together whose common factor is that they're all interested in ham radios, they tend to talk about ham radios. :-)