No Hexbear isn’t brigading you I’m clicking on the main page of the website and replying to whatever I see. I don’t even know what website I’m on, I have ADHD, I aint got the kind of focus. Anyway I’m going to go brigade a thread about video games with my pro-FFXIV propaganda.
But have you considered that the hexbears are mean to me and don’t respect my liberal politics?
This is ironically also the Hexbear justification for defederaing other instances now, lmao.
No that is the same thing, and my entire point is that we would not previously have used that as an excuse to shy away from engaging in ideological struggle with another sub, or instance.
You most definitely can brigade regardless of federation. Brigading refers to organised mass posting by a group of people.
Now, whether or not what’s happening is brigading is another matter. Just having users post there isn’t brigading, there has to be some organisation of some sort, like a post that effectively (intentionally or not) calls people to arms to another post/comment.
By that definition, we brigade all posts on our site and everywhere else, because we have a carefully cultivated culture of organised mass posting everywhere we see. If other Lemmy users aren’t posting with every fibre of their being, that sounds like theeeeir fault.
Posting everywhere individually isn’t a problem, it’s making a post about some other post then everyone from that second post going over to the first - in particular with some sort of call to arms in the second post.
a carefully cultivated culture of organised mass posting everywhere
If it truly is organised, then that is the definition of brigading.
Brigading is an offense made up by the most annoying people on Reddit that everyone has to pretend to take very seriously
“oh my god the bolsheviks are brigading the winter palace!”
“oh my god the workers are brigading outside the work place. they have picket signs!”
“I dropped my french fries in the parking lot and now the seagulls are brigading my french fries”
seagulls would never wait for you to drop them, let’s be real
the ones round here make you drop them
direct action (divebombing innocent citizens) gets the goods (chips)
brigading is when we comment on things on our front page
I can foresee it, see the conditions and material circumstances that give rise to it. But I am powerless to stop the Great Galactic Jihad the Hexbears shall carry out in Dirt_Owls name under the banner of House Pig Poop Balls.
If we defed sh.it.my.pants and lemm.pee, we can actually brigade them. That’s not my main reason to defed them, but still.
