What is the point of the fediverse having built-in censorship to ban ideas, views, and opinions? There could be a direct connection between why Mastodon does not attract new users and the totalitarian censorship of the fediverse pushing a monolith barbarian culture.
Looking through posts on the different fediverse services, it seems anything built on ActivityPub will only turn stale in 5 years because it is designed for people who can’t function in society where random individuals can freely reject their statements, so they need the internet to hide away from life.
I don’t think this is quite accurate. Without moderation tools this place would be riddled with spam, porn, and so on.
Moderation is a software system. Censorship is culture. You can approve of moderating obviously abusive content, while still objecting to the idea of moderators enforcing a single point of view by deleting comments that disagree with them.
Of course, there’s a big grey area there. And some people complain about “censorship” when they are being abusive and being moderated for it, but that’s not what OP is doing, as far as I can tell.