I was not especially asking for public RP. I prefer private RP too, but I don't mind the former as well since it has its own benefits/flaws.
It is just that even for private RP it seems dead, or well, well, well hidden. To a point where I start to wonder what could be worse for RP groups to keep their very RP existence hidden like that.
I have asked what groups and entities were still active, where I could find channels or ways to interact, and I got ignored, like if my question was somehow embarassing.
NB : I am not much in mass RP like live events, and anyway you have to be online and active at the exact time they happen, which is not so easy, and they do not happen everyday too.
I am not much into random local RP too, it is rarely worth the effort in my experience.