I agree with what the commenters are saying in that thread about it being a shame for a big community to lose activity, but with regards to the original issue and the other screenshot you linked to, it seems like an admin temperament issue rather than an isolated incident. It’s hard to build a community when users have to be worried about an admin lashing out at them after a bad day, and I think trust needs to be earned back before I would want to contribute there again.

I’m going to continue posting on dbzer0, personally. If it was just the matter of a mistake or a bad take, that would be one thing, but the admin’s behavior clearly indicates an attitude of hostility in his behavior as an admin towards people he considers ‘libs’, which, likewise, appears to be a very broadly applied label.

The admin has every right to trim his community in such a fashion but that necessarily means that some people will not feel welcome. The Fediverse means an individual can choose communities on an instance where they feel welcome, or at least where they don’t feel like the sword of Damocles is hanging above their head. For me, that’s not Midwest.social at this point.