Too bad they aren't interested in fixing things here.

I wouldn't go that far.

There's interest, but there's also reality. It's a matter of limited resources, time, energy, coding, and organization with an outdated software that needs a major overhaul for this free platform. At present there is only d3rr. (I suspect it was mostly only him coding before too.) This SaidIt software is on Python 2 I think and soon servers won't be offering that anymore. We may have to build our own server to host the old code, IF we can convince M7 and D3 to relocate it.

In my naive non-coder humble opinion, in an ideal world, we would build three things:

1. A Reddit-style skin (not just theme) for an existing well-supported FLOSS (and/or decentralized) forum like phpBB. Lazy users can use it in simplistic Reddit mode and everyone else can use the more powerful features in other modes (ie. Facebook-style, phpBB-style, simple style, advanced style, etc).
2. A database mirror that would copy all of SaidIt to that new forum.
3. A way to transfer or set up users accounts onto the new forum.