That is a lie you want other people to believe. But your main activity back in your safespace is pointing out threads and posts marked for brigading (or “dunking” as you call it).
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VHS@hexbear.net 1 year ago
i understand that our level of activity tends to overwhelm smaller instances, but what others call “brigading” is literally just us clicking on what’s on the front page.
yata@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 year ago
This is not true. Brigading is when there’s a post on Hexbear that links back to a specific post or comment on another instance, and Hexbears follow that posted link to interact. This happens all the time, I’m looking at Hexbears front page right now and there’s sereral links back to sh.itjust.works.
maus@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And some of those links actively encouraging hexbear users to brigade.
spiderplant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’re on a link aggregator platform and you are annoyed because are aggregating links?
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 year ago
Linking internally is definitely not the point, and I’m not annoyed, just pointing out that you can watch the brigading happen in realtime, so claiming that brigading isn’t happening is gaslighting.
spiderplant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This isn’t reddit, linking between instances is how this platform works. There are users who might only be federated with the instance where a link is posted and not the instance where the original post is.