Maybe try knots before you cry about it. The options knots has allow for you to make up your own set of filters so its self sovereign, and it might be hard for some bitcoin normies to understand but self sovereignity is the opposite of central authority. For central authority you can look at the boys from core, muting unwanted comments, paying someone to post a PR, stuf like that.
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Vented enough? Cool. First of all, I tried knots. It's running on one of my nodes, and I mined with OCEAN for as long as my miner worked. I am also sympathetic to Luke and to his views. And I am also peeved about the GitHub comment closing/re-opening for ACK etc.
However, that changes nothing about the fact that filters are - very unfortunately - ineffective in trying to reach an optimal behavior of the overall network. And crying about it doesn't help either.
Great response, thanks mate!