For a more accessible description of what sia & skynet do, https://siastats.info/sia101 is a good starting place.
https://siastats.info/sia101 is a nice newbie guide to Sia and Skynet but the more technical guides and troubleshooting knowledge exists at https://siasetup.info
This is very much not a good look at all for the whole thing, and I suggest the developers should both solve this problem amicably ASAP, and also add very clear 'WHAT THIS IS AND HOW IT WORKS' links on every page related to the project, with many real world examples of how/why use this and with nearly no use of specific jargon that's not introduced clearly during explanations.
[1] https://siasetup.info/guides/using-skynet