This is a war. Bodies are piling up. Despots are desperately clinging to power, and the parasitization that is their sustenance, because decentralization has already begun to reduce it. People - as do you - are making their own goods and services previously only available through centralized industry. In every field of industry, decentralization today is the cutting edge of advance. This particularly includes media, and has for some time.
Censorship is an act of desperation. Only folks that cannot abide facts need to eliminate those facts being communicated. The self-censorship that has been left as your only option to use the centralized platform is, as you admit, an act of desperation. You aren't more desperate than technocrats who have far more money at stake, and the fact is that censorship is them directly attacking their supply of content on which they feed.
We are winning, and they cannot decentralize without becoming ordinary plebs.
Have a look at this video, which practically was made with you in mind. Consider that mesh networks are being built today, and the centralized institutional power that presently enables censorship is being eliminated.
Decentralization is actual freedom, and centralization, despotism, is already on the decline. Over time, acting to reduce the parasitization you suffer will increasingly profit you, and reducing your dependence on centralized mechanisms will increasingly set you free from despotic power as well.
Thanks for the link. It's exactly what I need, and I think it's exactly how you're going to win. Diversify.