[jimbob45]

It’s not censorship. It’s the simplicity of the product. Social spaces succeed because they attract interesting people. In general, interesting people have the least amount of time to spend trying to maneuver through spam or wading through Nazi sympathizer/woke leftist posts. The barrier to entry has to be negligible to get the interesting people on board.

[nagonago]

Depends on your definition of interesting people. If you mean celebrities and public figures, I agree that most will probably never join the Fediverse because of the high barrier to entry, although I think there's more to that problem than just a lack of centralized moderation.

That said, in my opinion there are plenty of interesting people in the fediverse already. Personally I don't really care if the fediverse is widely adopted by celebrities and public figures or not.