Attempting Contact... Again

Most of the MOOs and MUDs have seen their hay-day already and are now past their prime. The once populated adventure worlds are now empty and desolate. Upon logging in today I was determined to make some sort of meaningful contact. The only human interactions that I have had so far have been newbie conversations ("hey, do you know how to ____?") and the notifications that pop up when another player travels through the space that you're currently in. When I checked the list of users currently online I was saddened to find it only had 11 members (and 3 of them were listed as "creator"). I messaged all of the normal 8 users with questions and comments such as "hey I'm new, any advice?", and "how long have you been playing for?". But alas, not one of the users even replied.

These MOO worlds seem completely dead and useless. I'm not sure why they're still running and taking up valuable server space (although I'm sure It's a small amount. And it's not that the creators have stopped all updating, because just yesterday I saw a link to a world's wiki page pop up during the log in. Ten years ago this assignment may have given me more interesting interactions, but today I have not found such a thing.