The paradigm shift being built with the Open Social Web can put communities back in control of social media infrastructure, and finally end our dependency on enshitified corporate giants. But while these incumbents can overcome multimillion-dollar lawsuits, the small host revolution could be picked off one by one without the protections offered by Section 230.
Censoring content isn’t the same as recommending content though. The OP was referring to recommendation algorithms specifically.
Hexbear in particular literally stickies posts to their instance and thus in that sense ‘recommends’ it. The user replied saying that if you “If you censor or promote speech, you should be responsible for it, to the same extent.”