Personally, I’ve done some rounds of unsubscribing from tech and politics subs on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, and when I’ve done that my amount of toxic content and interactions went way down.
Maybe that's a recommendation we should make to everyone
I just had an issue that might be interesting in your case. You can read it up on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, but long story short, the mod of a community wasn't happy with the way I wanted to bring some meta discussion into the community.
The main difference in this kind of situation between Lemmy and Reddit is that
I always think we should have another community called Threadiverse for Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, Lotide and soon Sublinks. Probably too late now as most people would prefer to stay here, but maybe at a later point we could.
Really? I thought that Reddthat and Beehaw disabled down votes while still being federated