Truthfully, bigotry and harmful content should be reported, not downvoted. 🙂 Our local admins are very responsive, and they’ll defederate from any other instances that sanction or defend that stuff.
Yep, this!
A look through the modlog will show you that I'm pretty aggressive with bigots. Downvotes don't mean much when the post is deleted and the user banned!
I agree with this wholeheartedly, though I'll probably have to actually go ahead and live by it too.
Relatedly, what does happen when you report a post or comment? Who does it go to? Presumably the community's moderators, but which of the admins receive the report? There's potentially three instances involved: Your own, the instance of the poster, and the instance that hosts the community it was posted to.
If you miss downvoting, you can always join a server that has downvoting enabled, which is most of them.
