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Reddit still has niches that (unfortunately) exist nowhere else, probably won't exist anywhere else soon due to the need for foot traffic, and are tolerable as long as old.reddit.com stays up.
And it's the lesser evil over Discord.
Lemmy is of course 1000x better, but it doesn't matter if your niche there is a ghost town.
I only lurk on Reddit these days, but if old reddit goes away I'll be completely done with it.
anything worth value, is 3 > 4 years old, and all those users are "deleted".
if google and duck duck go stop indexing old.redd, I'll probably never see it again.
But, at least trying to grow said niches didn't hurt. I've been on lemmy for more than a year and i've both created new horror groups and "adopted" abandoned one and, at the very least, now there's some life there. Nothing amazing, but people post and interact now.
If a group you find interesting is abandoned just start posting there, also, if the mods are gone for more than 9 months, just ask to the instances admins to become the new Moderator, all it took is to send a mail most of the time.