And we shouldn’t allow this concept to go unchallenged here on Lemmy.

Commenting on an active post is not brigading

Posting a link to something is not brigading

Commenting on something you were linked to is not brigading

The only thing that might be brigading, but isn’t because it isn’t a real thing, is someone explicitly going, “Hey everyone, go here and harass this person”

It’s all fine and good that we have some new rules to keep the peace with other instances but we must fight against reddit-logo brainworms

  • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Literally cannot imagine being this narcissist towards kids now that I’m old. I heard this fucking thing so much growing up

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      It was so awful. I tried so hard to understand what i was doing wrong and it wasn’t until decades later that i realized that i never did anything. “Talking back” just meant being noticed in any way. It’s a horrid way to treat people.