I wouldnt say its dead. You just have to pick though the massive amount of garbage of shit coins being released every day. I swear its a group of people who rehash the same old shit day in and day out.

There are a few options:
Stay with the multipool, switch to say, X11 and go from there..... some days your getting .02 BTC a day with 50 MH on that.... or find another non scrypt algo.
Jump on a new released shitcoin whos devs forum name just so happens to be the coin name... mine it and then cash out on exchange the first chance you get, much harder to do because there are a few farms + rig rentals that will hash the shit out of the coin, raise the dif rather fast.... f5 for an exchange and then dump the coins before the others do.
Or you could find a few coins and then mine them and hold if they sound legit...wait a few months.