As someone who loathes ai, hates everything it stands for, and thinks it will have a profoundly negative impact on the world, yeah I think it's far too easy to escalate things by just casually disagreeing with folks

I don't agree with you, but unless you're being an asshole you shouldn't get banned for that. I think attracting a very specific range of people has created a really echoey idea of right and wrong that people stick to incredibly prescriptively in a way that's often noth helpful, and simultaneously the small scale can kinda embolden people with authority in some ways, resulting in a lot of variation in how fairly folks get treated across insrances and comms.

It kinda reminds me of how moderately large businesses are pretty much always pretty crap, or heading that direction due to incentive structures, but small businesses run the gambit from really good folks, to an egregious display of humanities worst tendencies- it feels like the lack of scale removes both some of the incentives to be trend towards exploitation, and also some of the scrutiny if they're horrible.

One of the worst places my best friend ever worked was a small family owned dog kennel. It was absolute hell while she was there. The fediverse is kinda like a lot of small businesses, as opposed to one giant one with perverse incentives but tons of scrutiny on authority decisions

Sorry, at this point I'm just reflecting on how scale and structure changes the problems we face. Hope you have a good one :)

I do all of these things and I've not been catching bans left and right at all.