Just say 40,000. Which is a pathetic number, but perfectly fine for the type of niche communities budding up here and there across all the domains connected together here.
If you care about American politics and being outraged at every and any thing thrown at you during the day, it is active enough. However you are SOL if are curious about any other topic that does not involve narcissistically talking about yourself.
Assuming you are invested enough to find or create a community for a topic you care about, be prepared to be talking to yourself for a long time and consider yourself lucky if you manage to get 2 other people commenting on it.
Congratulations. You are bringing your dozen communities that only survive due to your incessant work, which kind of exemplifies my point: Lemmy has maybe a handful of communities outside of the politics/meta-fediverse topics.
It's a lot easier to complain than it is to make the world a better place. And before you think that that's a complete agreement with your reasoning, note that 1) Your comment is also an easy complaint and 2) Does this mean that people who can't produce quality content shouldn't be allowed to complain when there's a lack of it?
The big irony here is that OP actually went to the effort of creating content, even if it was "only" a complaint.
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