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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 almost think we should bring back down voting now that we're federated. We keep bumping posts we disagree with by constantly "dunking" on them. This ensures that the most hostile hexbear content is constantly on other instances front page. Libs will still complain about brigading but it won't be in their face anymore.
We don't need it. Just use lemmy and engage.
Let them rant about downvotes and brigading as much as they like. We're not downvoting or using any kind of targeted harassment and they're still running scared.