Recent algorithm change invites hate on marginalized and minority populations. Advice?

I hate this algorithm change. It appears to push far more controversial content onto people's home feeds as a means to increase engagement. Controversiality is measured based on the ratio of upvotes to downvotes.

What Reddit doesn't realize is that any marginalized or minority related content absorbs more predjudice based downvotes by default, thus that content is more controversial by default.

By pushing more controversial posts wide as a means to chase higher engagement, Reddit has inadvertantly increased the likelihood that members of minority populations are made victims to bullying and hatred they otherwise would not have had to suffer. They have made safe spaces less safe.

I mod a mid-size city sub. There was a post that contained some LGBT related content that the new algorithm decided to start pushing to nonsubscriber's home feeds. There were plenty of posts with far more upvotes the algorithm could have chosen.

The resulting influx of homophobia and transphobia--to my normally tolerant sub--was severe enough to warrant roughly 30 bans, which is more than I've ever issued in a year. The post required my constant attention for two days.

There were also nearly a dozen instances of report abuse (users reporting things for false reasons to grief and bully the OP). It was reported for being hateful, for being porn, for having sexual content involving minors, for self harm, and more, all of which was just made up bullshit meant to cause harm to the OP who had done nothing more than make a completely benign post. (And has Reddit just stopped taking action with regard to report abuse? It's been over two weeks now, and I've received no response.)

I've been modding the same sub for 13 years. I've spent all of that time cultivating a place that is assuredly safe and tolerant. Now, in addition to a subscriber having had to endure such vitriol, my sub's reputation has been compromised. And, the level of hate? I've never seen anything like it on there. It was disgusting; it was disturbing.

At the expense of some potential growth to my sub, I have turned off Discovery > Get recommended to individual redditors. It may be working to prevent threads in my sub from being advertised, or the post may have just run its course. I don't know :c [Italicized text in this paragraph edited for clarification.]

I hate the direction this place is going. Is there anything else I can do to ensure this doesn't happen again? I already had subreddit karma minimums for posts and may implement them for comments as well. But more broadly, is this just gonna be how it goes moving forward? Reddit pitting us against one another to increase revenue?

^{Edited for clarity.}