I am stuck in an apartment, I don’t see humans much, I miss interacting with humans.

I was thinking maybe a community exist where retired lonely women and men talk to others.

Like a voice call, I think the elderly might have good Insight about life, and would be fun to talk to… I am not that young I am almost 40.

I am a bit slow. I love to have a conversation with people and getting to know them.

  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    So I had no answer for this. Bothered me that I didn’t have one. I started thinking damn I’m sure there are tons of folks in nursing homes that would love to talk to them too.

    💡

    I started thinking that keeping senior’s company on the phone has to be a real gig somewhere, and it turns out people are definitely doing it. The biggest company I found is called “Papa,” but it seems like they want you to run in-person errands too. Idk didn’t dig too deep.

    I also came across Vantage Aging’s Telecare program, which looks a lot more reasonable if you just want to make calls, though keep in mind it appears to be volunteer work unlike Papa and others. I do want to state the obvious, though: because of their age, these relationships are all sad endings waiting to happen.

  • phonics@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    VRChat is free and you dont actually need VR for it. Its like a chatroom in 3d space. Think you can jump in from your phone even?

  • Send Pics of Sandwiches@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Ham radio often sounds like a big undertaking from the outside, but there are some really good (and often free) resources for getting your license.

    I suggest Ham, because like you, I don’t get out a ton, but ham radio has helped me interact with more people, and coincidentally they’re largely retirees in their 70s lol. But also because there are ham radio communities on Lemmy and all over the place, so it’s usually not hard to find other hams near or far.

    I took the US Technician and General tests back to back in March using ONLY hamstudy.org which doesn’t even require an account. It costed me $50 to take the test which also included 1 year membership in my local ham club, and a Baofeng radio can be had very cheaply from Amazon or similar. With a cheap handheld radio (no giant antenna, or yard space needed), you can talk on repeaters in your area for many miles depending on geography

    It often helps to find a specific common interest to link a group of people together, so if you’re looking for like minded individuals to talk to, almost any hobby can be a good starting point.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    3·
    11 hours ago

    The community !lemmy411@lemmy.ca was created to help people find other communities on Lemmy and Piefed, there hasn’t been a post there for a while now.

    As for what you’re looking for, I don’t think there are any Lemmy communities with voice chat focus. There are text threads where people ask how everyone’s doing or what their weekend plans are, etc., you can ask a question like that in various spots like !vancouver@lemmy.ca, !canada@lemmy.ca, !casualconversation@piefed.social, !general@lemmy.world

    I would suggest looking for Matrix servers and channels to join that do casual voice chat. You can follow this link to see instructions, once you are signed into Matrix, on how to access a directory of public channels on various topics.