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Sounds like you're looking for something like nostr. Still has servers (relays) but they don't really do much moderation there. Last time I checked that turned the entire place into a mess of racists and spam, but that was more than a year ago I think, maybe more normal people joined.
Or you could set up your own Lemmy server where you're the moderator, though other servers can still ban your account from there.
You can't escape moderation and censorship in lemmy. If a moderator of a certain big community has a certain heavy bias towards a subject and moderates accordingly. you are just bared from such discussions. communities suffer from the same network effects as social media do. I can take heat and shitty people but I can't stand silencing.
I might check nostr. is it app relient ??
You can start your own communities on your own server, but if moderators keep removing your stuff you may end up in a community by yourself. People generally don't like unmoderated places. Most places that claim not to do moderation eventually end up doing so because of this. Look at Trump Social for a prime example.
Nostr has a web client and a few apps. Your account is a cryptographic key, basically, which you can use to send messages through any relay. If a relay goes down, all of your messages on that relay disappear, but your messages on other relays will still work and you can still use the same account to keep tweeting (nostring?).
Do you need to pay for those relays, or register with those relays like you to on lemmy to be able to post ?
can you move your account from one relay to another ?
Are ther modded communities or subreddits like they are on lemmy ?
Do you need an app to be constantly connected in the background like briar messenger or all content is hosted on the relays?
As far as I can tell they're all free. I don't the service myself, though. You can (should) add multiple relays to whatever app you use to use the protocol to the fullest.
The only account you have is the key and metadata stored on your device is my understanding. You can use any account with any relay and create as many as you need. All you need to sign in is your private key. Enter that into any nostr app connected to any nostr relay(s) and you're good to go.
They don't do communities last time I checked, it's more of a Twitter alternative. The "shouting into the void" social media lends itself much better to moderation free environments than any attempts at discussion forums.