I don’t think most instances have enough users to get 20 upvotes on their posts. That’s not a very good indicator.

so… interestingly, account settings seem to be somehow related to that, as all my settings got mangled.

also, holy cow the dark theme on this is terrible

Just click into the gun advertisements community, and hit block

might want to change your default sort order in your settings to “Subscribed” too

I believe one of the admins said that it was hosted in Germany because of their data privacy protections