I’ve been seeing this trend in multilingual communities getting mass downvoted for posting content not in American English, and it's affecting how people interact with respective communities that post non ACE posts.
One huge e.g. was Sword of Legends 4 coverage. The raw sources were massdownvoted. Meanwhile an ACE corporation got inversely upvoted for secondary sourcing information.
Is threadiverse really this xenophobic?
Or is there something we can do about this?
There are other options. You can use an instance that disables downvotes. PieFed even allows you to disable downvotes per community instead of per instance.