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.
Participating is “brigading” the way defederation is “censorship”, which is to say it’s just not but a lot of people who want to stir up drama and play victim will pretend it is.
Depends if a link is shared
Edit for clarity; by a user to somewhere else
But have you considered that the hexbears are mean to me and don’t respect my liberal politics?
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.
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.
Brigading is an offense made up by the most annoying people on Reddit that everyone has to pretend to take very seriously
