Haven’t noticed

That’s not what a Gish Gallop is.

A rhetorical technique in which a dishonest speaker lists a string of falsehoods or misleading items so that their opponent will be unable to counter each one and still be able to make their own counterpoints.

Myopic
Definition 3: Narrow-minded

Also you aren’t really connecting the dots well as to how Lemmy can be censored by corporate authorities, or what specifically those are. Explaining those may help your case. Size also, it’s not clear how that really matters to censorship.

I wanted to start blocking the most high-censorship instances until I could find a fully zero-censorship instance and simply block all the ones with censorship. […] I found out there are no zero-censorship instances

Unless you’re using a zero-censorship instance it likely will block zero-censorship instances. So it’s not a surprise you couldn’t find one.

Lemmy relies on a broken “federation” system where each instance is supposed to be able to fetch posts from other instances, but it’s never been finished to reach a fully working state.

You need to define “fully working state”.

Lemmy’s official docs say you can’t even do federation over Tor at all. This means it uses DNS

Not necessarily. It could be possible to use standard IP addresses directly instead of domain names. In fact odds are good that would work already.

So you can only ever have the “average joe lemmy” and “average joe reddit” with everything approved by the authorities, and then “tor copies of lemmy” and “tor copies of reddit” where you have free speech but you can only reach other nerds.

That’s overly simplistic. Under a substantially sensorial authority the “average joe” would out of necessity, become such a nerd.

People seem to think Lemmy is different because this weird censorship fetish is extremely popular and most of you are happy to see bans happen to certain people, not just bots, so a small Lemmy that censors certain people feels fundamentally different from a big reddit that censors more people. But it’s the exact same thing, it’s reddit.

It’s not Reddit. The difference is, democratic censorship vs corporate censorship. Reddit users have no real power over what gets censored or not. On Lemmy they do. If your instance censors something you want to see, there’s little friction in moving to another one.

That’s a big difference.
Unless you think people are owed reach and exposure to a broad platform. In that case yes all censorship is suppressing your right to be heard by everyone in the world.

To be clear you don’t have that right.

It’s not actually a solution to reddit. It’s not designed to be different

Censorship isn’t the only way to differentiate from Reddit. Lemmy is also different in countless other ways; Algorithms and advertising to begin with. It’s myopic and supremely egotistical to think your one idea is the only difference that matters.

I’m completely happy with Boost

I have no problem with it.
People need to be aware, nothing on social media is private.

I stick to my idea.
Each community should be able to decide for themselves.

Maybe if mods from both communities agree to share comments. Some communities want to remain separate.