It seems active on the surface, but as you added recently votes that count towards activity, the majority of activity is just that. Empty votes. The number of comments per week is at least a magnitude greater on The Other instance than on this one.
hopefully someone will step up to help moderate it
No, No one will. No one wants to guess what you will judge as "lolicon" and walk on eggshells and be outed like previous mod.
This community will give you headaches again and again, and we both don't want that. I want for you to focus on important work and not chase stupid Japanese cartoons that depict children.
This community served it's purpose before reddit exodus and now it should be killed as times have changed.