Does trying to avoid brigading even make sense when Reddit is probably just going to force the mods to remove those posts in most subreddits?
We are talking about a company that bans people over upvotes
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Mods might be able to look the other way if lemmy is promoted, but not if obvious brigading happens.
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.
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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Fuck Reddit and fuck the cop in your head
That's my secret, I'm already shadowbanned.