Yes, there is. You have 705 post score and 565 comment score.

Some have sure, most I doubt. The largest instance certainly hasn’t.

Intent is irrelevant. Humans don’t work that way and will continue to downvote what they don’t like/agree with and upvote what they do like/agree with. Creating a system that ignores how people work and asking them to please use it how you want will never work.

Everyone should just embrace how it’s actually used and move on.

yet they’re not open to being alerted to problem posts (implied by the “checkmate” sass)

This is not the case, not they say “report and move on”. Reporting is literally alerting them to the problem post.

They are legally obligated for some US citizens. California (~40 million people) has a law similar to GDPR.

They also don’t have a way to check where you live so you can do the request and select either option (GDPR or CCPA) and they will fulfill the request.

In case you didn’t know and for everyone else that prefers the old UI there is a clone for lemmy.

https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

lemmy.world has it installed at https://old.lemmy.world. The creator has it running at https://mlmym.org/ for other instances that don’t have it installed.