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[–] Snowpix 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (100 children)

I knew from reading the headline that Hexbear's horde of mouthbreathers would show up to brigade and spread their propaganda. Sure enough, here we are

Edit: You guys really are just proving my point lmao

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago (123 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago

what happened to freeze-peach?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

Brigading is whenever a Hexbear user uses the site like literally everybody else that got here.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

Brigading is when a post shows up in your all tab and you comment on it

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

federation isn't brigading. a post shows up in our feeds, we click on it and comment because helping people dodge the draft is cool and good. We're one of the largest instances, and the consensus we have on issues like "conscription is bad" should not be taken as coordination on the part of hexbear users. If we did deliberately coordinate we'd all link you clowns to the thread where we did it because it would be funny.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

Brigading is when you federate and use the federation

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

I'm just here to laugh at bazinga dorks crying for mods

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (47 children)

Hexbear's horde of mouthbreathers

Main Character Syndrome is symptomatic of lib-brain. SAD! trump-drenched

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk if "commenting on a post from another instance that showed up in my feed because the instance I use is federated with that instance" is brigading.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

The wild canuck rages, for it has no values or culture to share

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

we've been doing lemmy shit for 3 years, youre brigading

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Dismiss the propaganda then?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh man, that brings me back to the days when r/cth used to brigade other subs. Those were the times.

Never thought I'd live long enough to see it again...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

The best part was that it was always just the fact we were all terminally online and saw the same frontpage threads as everyone else. It was (almost) never an actual brigade, just the result of having a bunch of very active posters with better politics than the average redditor. That's all it took to make the worst people on reddit pit over being unable to consistently silence people with better opinions than their own.

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