Greetings brother @crypto.piotr.

This publication seems very interesting to me, the topic that you tackled is key to understand the functioning of all these new platforms that are emerging on Steem's blockchin.

Is Palnet.io a clone of Steemit?
I would not see it that way.

I recently noticed that on the steempeak platform. com an option is set in its menu titled: "Tribes". This caught my attention. When entering this option we find several platforms, all of them pretend to group users around a specific topic (apparently). But there is a detail, almost all these new "tribes" adopted an interface almost identical to that of steemit.
The question: why?
I imagine they did not want to generate an effect of "resistance to change" in the users. Perhaps this is a consensus decision between the new developers and those of Steemit.

As for the "ghost comments".
I made my own comparison with one of my publications. You're right!
Does not match the number of comments.

But checking, the comments are there. There are 8 comments. The ones that Steemit indicates. I can visualize and read them from both platforms. But not all are accounted for in Palnet.
My Hypothesis: Palnet only counts the comments that are written from palnet.io.
I would have to verify this.

Thank you for inviting me to your publication, dear friend.