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Is doing this significantly more expensive?

We would defed from them for saying reactionary shit. It's the content of their posts that would be a deal breaker, not just the existence of their comments in our threads. We wouldn't weasel our way out of this by citing bullshit internet rules of civility, we would outright admit that the separation is ideologically motivated.

Fundamentally disagree. Brigading, as originally conceived by reddit, is an organized raid of one forum by another. Posting a screenshot to the_dunk_tank with a link is not organization. There is no call to action, it's just naming and shaming. If the user featured in the screenshot said something reprehensible, then they shouldn't be surprised if it spurs others to relentlessly mock and bully them. But when that happens, it's absolutely not a unified effort, nor is it targeting the forum as a whole.

That's just a consequence of saying reactionary shit in a public setting in full view of people who tend to be hurt by reactionary rhetoric. This isn't violence, there are no real threats being made. Everyone is totally free to continue to say whatever they want in accordance with the rules of their home instance. But if you voice your opinion in public, it's rather hypocritical to get pissed about others voicing their own opinions back.

Fun fact, did you know brigading doesn't exist on reddit anymore? The official reddit definition of brigading is when an r/chapotraphouse user also posts to any subreddit that is not r/chapotraphouse. Back when the old sub existed, almost all of our hundreds of thousands of users would constantly brigade the rest of reddit. Eventually we became the new boogeysub, taking the position from r/shitredditsays.

Unfortunately, that all became a thing of the past once r/chapotraphouse got banned.

Once covid deaths hit a 9/11 per day in the United States without radical action being taken to stop the spread, it really sunk in for me on a visceral level that Americans in general do not actually give a solitary shit about any of the people that died on 9/11. It was a tragedy not for the large loss of life, but simply because it was an attack on the United States that hurt national pride.

Youtube's use of A/B testing is very smart in that it's actually nothing about testing user response and all about limiting the number of people they piss off at once with their god awful changes.

The day I can't block ads on the internet is the day I stop using the internet.

That's where he has to promise not to run third party if he loses the primary, right?

Seems to me that's not a great idea considering how vastly unlikely it is he would lose the primary, and being at the debates would make it even less likely for him to lose.

Remember that bot (I'm pretty sure it was actually a user doing a bit and not a real bot, lmao) that scolded people for not putting their posts in the community that most closely matched the subject?

The "adjust your posting in line with this guidance" or whatever bot? That one just popped back into my head. People were so pissed, it actually started a struggle session. Years later, I'm not very proud to admit that I was one of the people being laughed at for getting ass-mad at a bot telling me what to do. I even reported it like a dozen times for spam. I downbeared whenever it showed up. That in particular is really embarrassing in hindsight considering reports are not anonymous and neither were downbears.

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Thank you for your service.

I agree. It'll suck if the two instances with the largest trans communities on lemmy defederate, but there seems to be irreconcilable political differences here that will make continued federation impossible.

From what I see, most users on blahaj, especially the 196 community specifically, have swallowed the state department party line hook, line, and sinker. If you literally believe in all of the CIA atrocity propaganda, then you also believe "tankies" are fascists pretending to be leftists. This disagreement is fundamental, and it can not be fixed by any degree of increased civility or politeness.

And from the looks of their discussion thread on continued federation with Hexbear, it's their admin more than anyone else delaying the inevitable defederation, their users are mostly cheering to cut us off. They've given us one week to see how it goes, but I don't feel confident things will change.

When they do end up defederating, I hope the new c/the_dunk_tank rules can be repealed because it seems they've been put in place nearly entirely to appease blahaj.

r/CTH was constantly accused of brigading for the same reason Hexbear is now constantly accused of brigading. We've inherited high posting activity from CTH, and now that we're federated we have the ability to see posts from and comment to other instances. That's it. They are basically complaining that we post too much and that we disagree with them, then they equate that to brigading.

It happened all the time to users on r/CTH who happened to use other subreddits. We'd be accused of brigading just for having a history of posting in r/CTH while posting normally in other subreddits. Accusations of brigading should be entirely dismissed unless there exists evidence of organization with the intent to swarm a particular community.