Actually they're still active - if you view from lemmy.world they last posted 3 hours ago, but if you view from your instance their last post was 9 days ago
I plan to implement a systemd timer that truly drops data from the database that was marked as “deleted” after around 30 days. I also have a note up that says to contact me if a copy of stored data has to be requested, etc.
This might actually get more people to move to Mastodon as the influencer accounts will want as many eyeballs as possible instead of only people with a twitter account, and these companies are rich enough to setup their Mastodon instance where they get to control their content instead of Musk.
People are going to want to try different things, as it’s complete chaos right now since the foundations of Internet advertising is being shaken to its core because of all the centralized services are making one bad decision after another.
New forms of marketing will definitely emerge from this, we just don’t know what yet, but setting up a Mastodon or Lemmy server should be trivial for these large media companies, and they won’t have to deal with verification anymore.
Lemmyverse is a search engine for Lemmy (though it doesn't find communities on Kbin (yet). It can help you find communities you're looking for, and also shows how big they are so you know where to go for most activity.
Sub.Rehab and RedditMigration.com are indexes of communities that have at least created a counterpart somewhere other than Reddit (though they don't track activity so some might be rather small still).
In the old days of forums, it wasn’t uncommon for a forum to ask for some small donations. which was never a problem (a good forum had a lot of good will and people willing to contribute). Remove the profit incentive and websites are not eyewateringly expensive to maintain.
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