Giving big corporations control over what other people say or think

Wait… what? Reddit is not a “big corporation”. Reddit also doesn’t have control over what people say, let alone think. Moderation on Reddit is done by the community, not by Reddit.

Honestly I think your service sounds even worse than Reddit. Sure, you’re not as big as reddit but neither was reddit when they first started out. Unlike reddit it looks like your service does directly control things? You’ve got one policy for the whole site dictating acceptable content, while Reddit has thousands of policies created by users.

Ultimately I think the Lemmy is the right approach to this type of website. If you think you can do a better job then Lemmy, then by all means go ahead. But I think being on the fediverse is table stakes.