Look, a whole post! I'll vote for that, even though I strongly disagree with your position on shadowbanning.
Limiting your audience is not censorship, it's volume control.
For people like me, a 'muted' post is just like a 'click me' sign... I want to find out what they don't want me to see. Sometimes, it's a post, like this, and I'm glad I clicked it. Most times, it's a bunch of off site links, porn, or a stolen meme, and I'm glad it's being discouraged.
Since you seem to promote the philosophy of anarchy, I can see where the idea of any governance, even self governance, would be abhorrent to you. I feel the same way. However, conflating voluntary governance with tyranny is a big stretch, and hammering on that point is only going to alienate people who might otherwise listen.
That's why you get downvoted.
If you want to come to Hive, and disagree with how it's being run, then you should expect that the majority of people here, who like the way it is being run, are going to disagree with you. They won't all downvote you, because people are generally too apathetic for that, but they also won't complain when the whales do. In fact, they'll thank them, because they're performing a function that the users here want.
You're free to tell people here what they should or shouldn't want, but you really can't expect people to want to hear it.
Now, before you argue with me, stop acting like a reward farmer, and check out some of my previous posts, on this account and on my @paradoxtma account. You'll see that we agree much more than we disagree.
If you just want to tell me, again, how you think shadowbanning is censorship, please don't bother. I know your opinion on the matter, and you know mine. If you want to talk about sensible alternatives, let's have a conversation.