Emergency performance change in lemmy_server Rust code request - environment variable or setting to disable outbound federation of votes/likes on post/comments

There is so much missing data between servers, I think this would be a significant reduction in load on the serves to not have to replicate.

THE CASE CAN BE MADE: that individual likes on remote servers are not absolutely critical to the user interface. Like "saved" posts/comments, the user interface isn't run except from local data - so the impact would mostly only influence presentation or ranking/sort of posts and comments.

There is a lot of missing posts/comments to cleanup anyway, so I suggest we work on adding a back-fill - and focus on a way to share aggregate local vote tallies with peers instead of replicating every individual comment_like and post_like

Can someone point where in the Rust code such a change could be made, who wants to submit a pull request?