- Click on the big button in the header next to ‘Local’ that says ‘All’.
- Click the drop-down field directly next to ‘All’.
- Click ‘Active’ from the drop-down list.
- Click on a thread loaded on the page.
- Reply to users in that thread.
Congrats! You have successfully done a brigading! Pat yourself on the back! Next seminar, we will be covering how to subtly deceive strategically-important redditors with a simple tactic they don’t know of called ‘whataboutism’ 
Edit: meant to post this in the secret group chat where we coordinate the fall of the west. Sorry y’all. My bad 
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.
I think most people not on this instance will see no difference between this and thedunktank, if there was a tankiejerk community just as big as the dunktank and operating in the same way with no explicit call to brigade and they mass showed up to hexbear posts featured on it, would you feel the same way, I don’t buy it, you would probably just defed from them
yes but we’re right.
Also we tend to ban dipshits once we’ve had our fun. They’re welcome to do the same, but the fact we keep our petty bullshit to ourselves and instead engage in earnest in the OPs, I think goes some way to dispelling the brigadier narrative
I think your point is fair.
But, I think a bigger step would be adding something to thedunktank rules discouragining “brigading”, not linking specifically lemmy posts directly, and hiding the usernames of the people involved in the screenshots.
it’s a non issue tbh. Get better takes (which are well and truly offered) or get a post in the hall of shame
It is a non issue, but I think if it could have been done over again it would have been better to take the Titoist approach rather than going so agro on everyone, I guess people will just make alts so they can actually use the fediverse, but it kind of defeats the point of it to just defed or get deffedded from everyone, obviously a few exploding heads, burggit, etc. are unacceptable hate speech, CSAM, etc. but it’s very silly that a blahaj user now can’t interact with a hexbear user and most of the bigger ones besides lemm.ee and lemmy.ml can’t either, just dissapointing that it went down like it did. Even on reddit sure you could block CTH but it wasn’t auto blocked to all new users.
blahaj was defederated because they refused to accept a bunch of queer commies, going so far as to say those groupings are mutually exclusive. blahaj is also largely a vaushite/196 instance which sucks.
That one actually hurt to see tbh. Thankfully, we’ve had a few folks jump over due to the contradictions there. Here’s hoping the rest find their way