I refuse to believe that it's the downvotes that drive people off this platform. They just get labeled online and offline because of their contributions to the anti-censorship and freedom of speech activities the matrix so hard tries to suffocate. However the attempts to comply with the regulative bodies and keep the platform clean of controversial stuff is not really an effective marketing strategy for this platform.

What should be done is promote P2P self-hosted/client-side in infrastructure probably but at these reward levels no content creator has the revenue to run their own personal API node.