It sucks these guys are going through this. Worst possible time to really need a fair and functional justice system. I hope someone points them to the ACLU; they’re built for exactly this situation: https://www.aclu.org/about/contact-us
Edited to remove misplaced condolences
That’s a nice strawman you built there, but it’s wrong. The issue is not that “every dev needs to be a senior dev to use AI” nor is it “code is binary: right or wrong” (🥁). The whole point of this article is that new developers are entering the industry but they’re not building the skills that would eventually forge them into senior devs. They’re relying on generative AI for the foundational work, even when assigned a learning exercise by a senior dev, without understanding the “why” behind the output of the LLM they used.
Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob’s shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they’ll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.
At least, this is how I’ve been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I’ll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.