And we shouldn’t allow this concept to go unchallenged here on Lemmy.

Commenting on an active post is not brigading

Posting a link to something is not brigading

Commenting on something you were linked to is not brigading

The only thing that might be brigading, but isn’t because it isn’t a real thing, is someone explicitly going, “Hey everyone, go here and harass this person”

It’s all fine and good that we have some new rules to keep the peace with other instances but we must fight against reddit-logo brainworms

  • Melonius [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I saw so many bad faith trolls saying they’d block this instance. Would love to keep track of them and toss that quote back at them when they’re still repeating their shit takes if the feature ever becomes available.

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        1 year ago

        I know they won’t. Some of them genuinely do want to avoid politics and the puppy kisses smothering a shit take gets and it’s totally understandable. For the others they thrive on berdly-smug posting their feigned offense at being told theyre wrong. It’s like dozens of ben shaliros