Uh, sir! sir! Your inclusive instance policies are unfair! MODS!
This isn’t about Hexbear. As far as I know Hexbear federates downvotes but does not have downvotes, which puts us at a vote disadvantage. It’s Beehaw and some others that reject downvotes from other servers. They send a 504 response to the incoming downvote request from the other server.
only if we start getting lurkers that downvote trans shit again. I may still be misunderstanding how they work on hexbear though