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You’re coming into a thread after it has 1000+ comments, which itself is subsequent to a lot of informal discussion. There’s context here.

Part of that context is repeated accusations of Hexbear users brigading. The concept of brigading has its own issues, but to whatever degree it’s a real problem, users from other instances dropping in because a thread pops up in their feed (as you presumably did) is not brigading. Users from many instances have said they aren’t always sure where they are in every thread post-federation, and Hexbear users have said that, too.

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pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I haven’t said a thing about brigading, so I’m not sure why that’s relevant to me in particular. And I am one user from programming dev, a pretty neutral instance. That’s hardly brigading.

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- LinkedinLenin@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fwiw that user specifically has been shitflinging a lot and they’re a relatively new account. I suspect they’re either someone from Hexbear that doesn’t want federation to work out, or a third party just trying to upset people.
  
  It wasn’t relevant to you in particular at all, just a weird transference of aggression, as if every user holds the same opinions and inherently knows the nuances of this debate.
  
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  - pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah there does seem to be a lot of various in individual user opinion, which I think is important to take into account with things like defederation. My earlier comment was based on reading through some of the comments on hexbear’s new posting guidelines thread. So I admit, hardly all encompassing.
    
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    LinkedinLenin@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Just in case you’re reading this as an attack on you:
    
    as if every user holds the same opinions and inherently knows the nuances of this debate.
    
    I meant that the other user was acting as if you were one of the people accusing us of brigading simply for posting on a non-local instance, when it’s pretty clear you weren’t.
    
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hypelightfly@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The majority of those comments all come from one instance and mostly are derailing the thread and any attempt at discussion. Can you guess which one?

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