A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That’s not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.
To hide the reputation system, here’s a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user
To me, it was obvious that these parts were configurable. There were literally boolean checks for it.
But these features remind me Reddit. And I’m pretty sure most users simply unaware about these things enabled on the .social instance.