What do other stations have that we don't?

[Dr Zoidcrab]

better (existing) ghost roles and choices as well as ways to get back into the round (tg has replica pods, positronic brains and pAIs for one thing), 

I randomly read wikis for other servers and this just seems like a fun way to get ghosts back into the game.  Ghost drones are fun, but sometimes you just don't wanna ghost drone, ya know?  I always wondered how neat it would be to be a mini-helper for someone.

what do personal ai's do exactly? Can they do all the usual ai things but like with the pda as their main camera or is it just like an RP friend

They're like an RP friend. They act like a PDA, and they can fit in your pocket. They can download a few programs, like one that lets them view security records, one that lets you view medical records, and arguably the most useful one, one that lets the pAI hack open doors. They can also turn into mini robots and scamper around.

Unrobust people use them to suicide bomb antags.

I think this was mentioned in passing, but there's also a huge difference between goon mining and other servers' mining. Goon miners get an asteroid magnet, while shaft miners get a whole world of adventure to mine in, complete with actual, bullet hell bosses that drop magical swords and staves. Which creates a sort of perverse incentive, because there's a lot of motivation for a miner to not actually mine and instead go adventure for sweet lootz, rather than mine minerals for Robotics and R&D so it can make mechs and advanced mining equipment for said miners.

Once, though, somewhere on the /r/ss13 discord, I saw a guy praise goonstation mining over tg/station mining on the basis of having a device that automatically collects ore on the ground.  Which tg/station apparently actually does have, but in the form of a cute little mining drone that picks up ore for you.

Its real "fun" when one of those bosses spawns right next to the outpost, destroys it and kills the entire mining team with instagib attacks before they can get any equipment upgrades. As for the "bullet hell" boss, its actually easier to avoid the projectiles they shoot out by standing still- because they move so slowly you end up running into more trying to avoid them.

The mining drones are useless- Set them to attack critters and they'll get destroyed in seconds, either by the critters themselves or by running headfirst into lava to attack. Set them gather ore and they'll sit there gathering it as the critters eat them.