Thanks, I’ll do that!
I have found that by brute force hitting the button between Subscribe and Pending enough it eventually switches to “Joined”. I’m not proud of my troubleshooting method.
Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I’m on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don’t want it.
His persecution fetish is showing
Plot twist: All of this is made up.
Half the battle was finding something to put in the tray besides Reddit. Jerboa it is!
2 out of 3 of those are immediately disqualifying for me. The third is unfortunate but I’ll take old over criminal fascists every day and twice on Sunday.