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.
Oh I can actually answer this one. And nah. That's not why you guys are being told you are brigading.
But think of it this way. Every community on the internet has its own culture. Small ones even more so. And Lemmy is full of small communities which is great.
Suddenly your five person community starts getting bombarded with people from another instance that all seem to have a very different culture and it totally kills the conversation that was happening there before.
That's the complaint people are having about hexbear. You are entirely entitled to your own little echo chamber on the internet.
But you guys. I'm assuming unintentionally are sprouting those ideas outside of it in much smaller communities. Completely overwhelming the local discourse.
You gotta be more mindful of it if you don't want to kill smaller communities.
Ps. My bot edit it's because all replies to my post were account created on a very small window of time. Yours included. There's a few July 26 2020s there. It raises flags for me at least.
If that's a problem why would they federate with instances hundreds of times their size? If you want your tiny community and don't want other people commenting there, don't federate!
I think most people want to federate to reach more like minded people. Which is reasonable.
Then operate on an allow list and only federate with people you want to federate with? Why are you acting like anyone has ever suddenly been bombarded by hexbear comments without first deciding to either federate specifically with us or to federate with everyone? You realize you're literally just making up a lie right?
I'm not disagreeing with you on that one. And this thread wasn't about that either. The whole thread is about whether you guys are brigading or not.
And we're supposed to be the trolls
You are making up both sides of your own conversation not sure if you realize. I hope you do though.