I’ve found some evidence and posted it here:
Lemmy.world Is Anti‑Humanity. How Its Admins Weaponized Defederation to Silence Palestine Solidarity

The last I’ve seen was this, but I remember before lemmy.world’s admin defederated from an entire instance over one user’s “death to all Zionists” display name. That user stepped down. The damage was done.

This was a political act. When a platform punishes critics of documented apartheid and ethnic cleansing more harshly than it punishes the apologists for those crimes, yes—that’s anti-humanity in practice. Complicity doesn’t require intent, just silence and a ban hammer.

edit: I’ve found more evidence and posted it here:
Lemmy.world Is Anti‑Humanity. How Its Admins Weaponized Defederation to Silence Palestine Solidarity

The problem is, Israeli far-right groups and Zionist advocates have spent decades turning “antisemitic” into a shield. You call out forced displacement, apartheid, collective punishment—all well documented by Amnesty, B’Tselem, and Human Rights Watch—and they call you an antisemite. It’s an old trick, and it works.

So when a platform like lemmy.world bans “anti-Zionists,” they’re buying into that same smear. They’re not separating bigotry from basic human rights criticism. That means you literally can’t speak out against genocide there without being branded an antisemite. The only way to say “stop the genocide” is to wear that label as a badge of honor. And that’s exactly the point: any platform that forces you to accept a false accusation just to state the obvious is complicit.

If you downvote more than you upvote, pretty soon you can’t downvote anymore.

Oh, I guess I’ll start using only upvotes to mark posts as read.

Do you have any ideas for improving discovery of niche topics? What about that suggestion about limiting downvotes to subscribers to prevent drive-by downvotes?

Yes that setting. I stop seeing posts after I reload by voting them with that setting enabled.

Every post I vote stops showing when I reload the page.

Do not display posts with which I have already interacted (opened/upvoted/downvoted)

To stop seeing the content with that setting. it’s faster than opening the post.

Upvote content you like. Downvote content you actively don’t like.

That’s pretty much what I do.

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Imagine Stack Overflow, but you have some probability of not seeing the top answer. That’s pretty much what happens with federated instances blocking each other. I wouldn’t use that.

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