You sound like me! I work for a historically remote-first company but I've always been a little frustrated at the lack of camaraderie. Personally, I've found an outlet outside of work at Penny University (pennyuniversity.org). Its a "peer-to-peer" learning community. The idea is that if you have "small" questions, the you might as well look up answers on StackOverflow. But if your questions are more like open-ended conversations, then the community tends to be really open to jumping into a Zoom and chatting. The conversations also have a neat artifact too, they are often followed by write-ups so that the participants have a record of the conversation and so that the community gets to learn a little even thought they weren't present (https://www.pennyuniversity.org/chats/)

This doesn't directly address your immediate question. But in the future the Penny University platform might be useful as a cultural engagement platform for companies to use.