It still has room for growth, but the happy spot is when you can get like 3-5 good posts per subcommunity per day with 10-50 comments per post. That's a few good conversations between known community members that you can jump into without the content volume being too under/overwhelming. Beyond that the amount of activity is so high that we have to game the algorithm to compete with strangers. Hexbear seems like it's right below the low-end of that with our federated commenters and it's a pleasant user experience. Back when it was /r/chapotraphouse with 100k~ subscribers, it could still maintain that feeling but was already reaching the point of oversaturation that a subreddit like /r/hasanpiker now has. Each thread had like 50-100+ comments with the majority being filler or algorithm bait.