Honestly not too bad from an understanding perspective but I’m finding there are clearly drawbacks to the federated model. All these spread out parallel communities on different instances with very little engagement. It feels very quiet compared to reddit, seemingly beyond just the smaller userbase.

I’m sure there’s way less bot activity too, mind you. I was always blown away by all the /r/AITAH (and other) posts with thousands of comments responding to clearly AI-generated scenarios. Is it bots all the way down? Are people throwing away thousands of hours in aggregate engaging with these things? Puzzling.