Yeah, it’s a little difficult to browse all content from other instances while logged into a different one.
For instance, I just tried to go to ‘Perthchat’ by clicking on @NormieGirl@lemmy.perthchat.org’s profile. It got me there, but I can’t vote or comment, which feels a little unintuitive.
The outcome for this for Hexbear was ultimately removing downvotes.
It isn’t as bad of an outcome as you might expect. People still end up ratio’d, and anything garbage gets manually removed by mods. (The ‘report’ button becoming a ‘super downvote’.)
It’s probably not too scalable, but it works for a community of its size.
I didn’t get banned from Reddit. But my favourite communities did.