What's with the low activity?

The activity on this site is insanely slow. Both in terms of uploads and comments. Really by every metric it feels like I am the only one here.

I wonder why the activity is so slow. Every other booru I have been to has more activity than this site. Yes, that includes Derpibooru-which goes without saying. But it also includes Manebooru, Tantabus, and Twibooru. Is this site even earning enough money through advertising to pay for the domain fees? It really concerns me.

We don't accept paid advertisement and the site is fully funded by the team.

As for activity, it's mostly inertia. The fascist sympathizers "free speech advocates" who left Derpibooru all left in a flock and maintain activity on their own homes. Tantabus is an offshoot of Derpibooru formed when Derpibooru banned AI-generated content. As of today, Manebooru is the only booru with a hard-line stance against topics such as fascist sympathy or underage pornography. The drama on Derpibooru when it banned said content (then unbanned it, then rebanned it, then unbanned it, which stuck) blew over and most of the site didn't seem to care.

A big part of the perception of low activity is because we don't maintain social fora. As an offshoot of Manechat, we direct socialization there since that's where the majority of mod time is spent.