Why? Not only have the masses remained since last year, they showed how docile they are and how much further mistreatment they'll tolerate.
I have mostly left. You can tell that the website is not at all the same since the protests. There are measurably fewer contributors and the quality of the content and discussions suffered. The bots have taken over. The front page is unbearable.
Perhaps it still scratches an itch when you have a few minutes to kill, but it only survives because nothing else really replaces it. This can’t go on forever.