If some things get downvoted way out of proportion, and those downvotes come mostly from people in certain instances, and instances have the power to block each other, it stands to reason some instance out there managed to block the instances that contribute the most downvotes, causing them to have mainly upvotes. Right?
It’s just an option in the admin settings to enable or disable downvotes, no code editing needed
Ah, that is even easier, TIL