I agree, and I don't think many of the users there thought of it as activism as well; that was never the purpose of the sub, most people were aware of that. It was still important in many unique ways because it was a massive media hub/news aggregate that filtered everything through a big-tent leftist lens, stayed perpetually relevant, and fostered and cultivated a very unique emergent culture. No other community on the internet was like that, nothing ticked all of those boxes. You either had to grit your teeth through chuds, or deal with a small and selective group of one particular tendency. The closest thing in terms of a media hub with a leftist filter was maybe r/latestagecapitalism, but it wasn't that far left, and the attitude was what was most important - LSC's culture is just angry and depressed, moral outrage, and is mostly surface-level anticapitalists. r/CTH did have an undergirding of outrage but with solidarity, or sharing something funny to cope, and an irreverent culture that you saw nowhere else which allowed leftists to feel like they had a space they could let loose and know they won't get chud backlash. And this website so far is inheriting that unique culture, so I'm glad to see it didn't die.