Nah, promote him instead.

I think it’s a matter of sorting. Do you know how does it work? I don’t. Would be interesting to know. Why exactly those posts are shown in the feed? Is it “sort all by upvotes count descending”? Probably not, because this way you will get popular post from previous year. Is it “same, but filtered to those posted within last week”? Probably not. I think interacting with lemmy’s api can shed some light on this topic. Probably you can use whatever sorting you like.

Solutions should bring more freedom, not restrictions. Imagine not being able to upvote something you like.

“Gives you control” - you post video. It gets federated to another instance. Congratulations! You can’t delete your video.

I wonder, when you chose those instances, how far from the top they have been comparing by users count.