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.
We don’t have “downvotes” because, in reality, we’re the antithesis of your delusional beliefs, you Reddit-brained dipshit.
What you really hate is that Hexbear is full of leftists because when you realize there’s an entire world “to the left” of you, you can’t pretend to be the enlightened progressive leftwing white-savior by virtue of not being a member of the most right-wing political group, merely the second most rightwing.
Again, learning something from a Hexbear account which will make you realize your relative position on the global political spectrum is right-wing and fascist as fuck compared to the non-western empires that exploit and steal resources from around the world from countries with lesser power for your own benefit, while pretending you’re an enlightened hero of the world because you eat up neoliberal propaganda that makes you feel like a hero while sitting on your ass consuming your (stolen) treats.
Funny that you want to use force to silence a left unity community. Very anarchist of you.
Unity? Whenever I want to discuss my libertarian progressive brand of communism you all harass me.
I’m posting from Lemmygrad so I downvoted you, comrade.
I love it when I see a post on Hexbear with like 10 Lemmygrad downvotes, it’s like a secret handshake.
Yeah, I mean, other than the slurs, the vocabulary, the comms, the views on minorities, the views on women, the views on LGBTQIA+, the views on people with different skin colors, the views on people with different religions, the sheer differences in site demographics, the views on economic and political systems, and in general our entire worldview on politics; aside from those very minor differences, we are basically 4chan.
Thinking that we are merely QAnoners or Trumpers betrays your embarrassing lack of knowledge of anything going on outside your borders. To think the world is encapsulated by a fight between liberals and deranged conservatives, where the arena of political thought is just between Biden and Trump (with Bernie representing the Most Socialist You Can Possibly Be), rather than a class war where you both are on the side of the imperialist bourgeoisie, is a frighteningly sheltered worldview.
flavour of leftism I absolutely despise (the terminally online mini dictator one).
Libs thinking MLs are a strictly online phenomenon is a good reminder that they fundamentally don’t think that people in the global south exist.
Depends if a link is shared
Edit for clarity; by a user to somewhere else
… What else are you doing when you post it? If it’s posted in a non-federated instance, it’s only shared locally, but it’s still shared.
What am I missing?
If you share an image of the comments rather than a link it’s less likely to lead to brigading.
What if a link is shared with a different community because that community has a shared interest? Is that brigading? What if it’s crossposted? What if I share your post with my discord friends because I think they’ll have something interesting to contribute? What if I tell one friend about your website? 3? 5? At what point is that brigading?
See this is why brigading is the most worthless concept ever. All of our communities are free and open access. Anyone can pop in from anywhere at any time. And we largely WANT people with shared interests to show up and hang out. That’s literally the point. And we do that by sharing content with those people in hopes they want to stick around. The communities are BUILT off of what you and all the other nerds keep calling “brigading.” So basically you want your insulated community to never grow and never change and be members only FOREVER, or you want your content shared with others with the purpose of engagement in that content.
By the definition I keep hearing about evil evil brigading it just sounds like “stop sharing my post with anyone!” It’s the Internet on public sites. You posted it. It’s on there for anyone to see forever. You already shared it with literally the entire world. People are gonna see it and engage with it. If you don’t want that then you’re free to not post. Simple as.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
