Polandball is a comic like things where countries are drawn to be orbs of their flags. They talk to each other sometimes joke sometimes just commentary.

So Americaball might be taking to Japanball about fishing or something. It's cooperative in the sense anyone can make and post them, like the SCP wiki.

So far!? I've been here since the Reddit API collapse (RIP RIF) and it's miles better now than it was.

I don't really care about comment quantity as long as the quality is good

Inversely, less comments means it's far more viable to actually engage in the comments yourself even hours after a post has been made, whereas on Reddit if you don't make a comment within the first hour, your comment is often buried.

The threadiverse grows organically, by word of mouth. It has zero marketing budget, so it will never be as popular as corporate social media platforms. But the quality the comments are better, there are vastly fewer bots, and there is very little embedded advertising.

Also your data isn’t being sold, at least not by us. Content does get scraped by bots, and nothing can be done about that. But the threadiverse is pseudonymous, so it’s not likely to be linked back to you.

Our content may get incorporated into some large language models. If there’s a silver lining to that, it’s that more English language LLMs will train on more anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist content.

I take it as a good thing. Leas crap and the quality is in general much higher

not nearly as many comments as I'm used to.

If you were on Reddit in the early days this feels very familiar in a wonderful way.

No bots you mean? X')

If all the people who said "Lemmy doesn't have enough users" had joined Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin instead of complaining, we wouldn't have these issues lol

But also Reddit has way too many comments, or too many bots. If I leave a comment on something big I usually never get any replies or even upvotes. It's kinda pointless. On Lemmy I pretty much always get some interaction.

I still go to reddit when bored at work, but to be honest, the comments are all basically the same. There is only so many times you can read the same reductive comments before you get bored.

It'd be nice for there to be more activity, but I'm happy that its at least humans (mostly) here.

I find it a little charming to be in a smaller forum, though. I'm still on Reddit for when I want to talk to thousands of people (and bots) about any obscure topic, but I appreciate that on Lemmy, it matters if you post and it matters if you comment. It's like the difference between boating on a lake and in the ocean, both are nice for different reasons.