Have you found another instance? And if so, why did you choose that particular one? I’m also considering another instance due to this ones stance on down voting.

Agreed. I’m definitely waiting in anticipation of the end of the month to see what happens. Regardless, lemmy is my new home. Fediverse is just a great concept, looking forward to it maturing.

It is unfortunate for sure. I’ve come across this issue already.
But that experience hasn’t been great for a while amyway. Reading through comment chains is a nightmare on new desktop reddit. Looking forward to hopefully replacing ‘reddit’ with ‘lemmy’ in my search queries, hopefully sooner rather than later.