I want to laugh at funny memes that make fun of the awful world we live in, crack jokes with people with similarly morally calibrated senses of humor, get leftist news about events and places I wouldn’t get otherwise (something that has massively dropped off from the sub to this site, I might add) and get dopamine rushes from sparkly big number on bear.

As do I, and us all. That shared desire we have is what unites us and makes this website a community. A community is just a group of living things with commonality. Furthermore, all of those things you and I like to enjoy rely on there being other people here to share them with us. New users mean new and more varied (better) content so growth is very important. You say we don't have as leftist much news, something I also wish there was more of here, well that's a growth problem.

Now I'm not also not sure what makes a community "healthy" or not, but I know if a community stops growing it withers and dies.