I am not a coder, and seem to have misunderstood, from your comment, that the API mechanism was being applied on both forks, with the difference that Steem was adding catalogs to what is not passed to front ends.
However, I am learning, and what I am learning today is that folks that are competent to work with APIs have undertaken what I consider to be vast improvements in how censorship is going to be implemented going forward.
I am grateful for your considerations, and for sharing them with me here. I hope trust can be unnecessary, just as I hope spam will stop. I'd much rather users themselves be enabled to choose what is censored from their feeds, as that best enables free speech and dissent in a world that seems hell bent on duplicating the Chinese model of total information control, where any information not mandatory is forbidden.
The centralized platforms are all headed in that direction. Since I, and many I have read say so, are here because of censorship, enabling users to be the only censor of their feeds strikes me as the most potent recruiting campaign possible.
Seems to me it's just the right thing to do, as well.
Thanks!