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PSA - Note on Brigading Reddit (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Posting Reddit links where people are looking for alternatives/discussing Lemmy is great, since those of us who quit Reddit for Lemmy superiority can't tell people Lemmy is superior.

HOWEVER, be slightly cautious of brigading:

  1. To prevent brigading, Reddit stops counting upvotes on posts if people come from an external link, upvote quickly, and leave
  2. Reddit has previously banned links to rdrama.net due to excessive brigading - This would be bad if it happened to Lemmy
  3. We don't necessarily want to catch some power tripping Reddit admin to shadowban Lemmy shills

Basically, keep posting, but don't overdo it in a given subreddit, and maybe give a slight warning to not make a brigade obvious

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[โ€“] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I definitely think there's value to being cautious if one wants to promote the fediverse. While one can heavily dislike reddit, it's unnecessary to burn all the bridges if we still want people on reddit to discover Lemm/mbin/Piefed/what not.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Let's take an example

/r/BuyFromEU has 167000 subscribers. They could have a pinned post with content similar to this one (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/) to at least make people aware of the existence of Lemmy.

The objective of that sub is to promote European alternative to US products and well, Reddit is a US product.

They prefer to warn people against brigading

The link was to https://feddit.uk/post/25543513

But how can we, with our 53k monthly active users, even brigade a 167k users subreddit? What does "organic" upvoting mean in this context, when obviously the vast majority of Lemmy users don't use Reddit anymore, and thus are not going to monitor Reddit threads with incorrect assumptions such as "Lemmy requires you to create an account on every instance"

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