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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 
I think there's probably a good argument for not going easy on liberalism, ever, because if the roles were reversed they would not give us any room to grow and they would not hesitate. I think there's probably a fine line between showing no mercy and coming across as toxic and giving them an excuse to defederate so no idea what the right call is tbh
"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."
[Hexbear is one of the more active instances in the lemmyverse]
Our turn has finally come comrades!
A lot of people are proving otherwise with their first reply.
And frankly I don't want to try to lead all of these grown ass adults out of the brambles of Capitalist brain worms by the teeth starting from first principles every day in every single conversation. We'll spend the rest of our lives trying to teach adult children on what is for the most part the only place on the Anglophone internet where you can be an ML without being screamed at by very ignorant people.
I cannot emphasize enough that Hexbear is one of, if not the, only safe harbor for commies that's actually active and interesting.
It's partially that, but it is also partially that the reason that we aren't listening to your advice is that we have done this whole song and dance before, some of us for years, nearly decades. There is a reason we adopted the chapo posting method, and it's not because it's 'a vibe'. It is a strategy. A strategy for what? Staying sane while posting in generalized liberal instances.
We will attract like-minded posters incidentally, we don't need to target them, there is no reason to ever assume 'good-faith' in anonymous online discourse, it is a privilege to be provided sparingly.
I'm not going to go all 'back in my days in the posting-mines', but we have done this whole thing before and we will likely have to do it again.