Yes, I used to hang out with Esperantists for a while. But time has shown that this language is more dead than alive. The only thing that has been useful to me since then is the knowledge of common European word roots. Thanks to EO, I literally know what words I'm seeing for the first time in my life mean or can mean.
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Esperanto is very much alive. It's sadly not as alive as many of us would want.
I think even in the '00s it was more alive than it is now. The Internet hasn't done much to help Esperanto's popularity grow.