If you downvote more than you upvote, pretty soon you can’t downvote anymore.

Oh, I guess I’ll start using only upvotes to mark posts as read.

Do you have any ideas for improving discovery of niche topics? What about that suggestion about limiting downvotes to subscribers to prevent drive-by downvotes?

Yes that setting. I stop seeing posts after I reload by voting them with that setting enabled.

Every post I vote stops showing when I reload the page.

Do not display posts with which I have already interacted (opened/upvoted/downvoted)

To stop seeing the content with that setting. it’s faster than opening the post.

Upvote content you like. Downvote content you actively don’t like.

That’s pretty much what I do.

Finally a site where I’ll be able to stop seeing US news.

I’m trying to download all fics from that specific forum. Sorry I wasn’t clear.

If I used sqlite or any other SQL database I don’t think users could collaborate on building the database, so I was thinking of json files committed to a git repository online.

Imagine Stack Overflow, but you have some probability of not seeing the top answer. That’s pretty much what happens with federated instances blocking each other. I wouldn’t use that.

And I’m saying you can encounter the same issue of not finding a post whether you save it or not. If you suggest saving content to reference later, there also needs to be a way to search within those saved posts. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same problem as not being able to find it without having saved it.

You would need to be able to search saved posts which would also be useful, but not nearly as much.