It will always be like that. If 100 people come here for the first time on one day its great if 10 end up staying till the end of the week and lurking and out of those 10 maybe 1 would end up staying for longer. Thats just how these things work.

There was another thread about this previously. Have a look through the suggestions there as well.

https://lemmy.world/post/602539

Great breakdown. Appreciate the info. Love the part about ads as well. It’s also inherently difficult for ads to get impressions when users can just submit a veiled post about something in a community for free.

It’s essentially a community that promotes left wing extremist ideologies and is very much in favour of authoritarians who don’t like democracy. Lots of hate for the west, lots of whataboutisms and lots of love for Putin and Xi and lots of excuses for the invasion of Ukraine and the Uyghur genocide. I’m left leaning but they have more in common with fascists than anything else.

Bless your soul my child. I can now get rid of lemmygrad.