You could be right, there’s a few here that are still pretty dead, I have tried to inject a bit of life into a few of my favourites but the patients are still unresponsive. That said, its good to have readymade replacements already up and running if/when the clowns running reddit make another catastrophically bad decision that pisses off even more of their userbase.
What does need to happen is a cleaning up of all the duplicates - there are two Swimming comunities and two Idiotsincars for instance. The Android community mods did the right and honourable thing by merging with another Android community on a tech focused instance, others should be encourage to do the same