Of course it's the simplest reading: lemmy.ML is a weird instance with rather weird users, filtering THAT out (and some more) will be a benefit for the Fediverse as it prevents new users from being too much weirdet out
Real hackers social-engineered their way into high security systems decades before the first blue haired femboy nerd proudly announced "Btw i am usin Arch!"
The thing with Copilot is... it's pretty useless. I mean, i am pro AI, i use Mistral daily for various tasks and toyed with others like ChatGPT and Grok, but Copilot is surely the least capable of the big models.
I don't think you need a targeted campaign for that... give some of the lunaticsextremists left leaning lemmy folks only the slightest hint that some service may not pass the purity testing and they will jump on it like a fly on a big pile of shit.
Its simply the old internet: A highly autistic place filled with highly intelligent (or at least, that is what they think of themselves) people with tons of StarTrek, inside jokes and oh so much petty grudges.
As someone who was around at the time of the Usenet and the end if the BBS era I love it, but it is a bit of an acquired taste...
bug != feature