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 
Their whole expiriment was the gamification of content curation to goad users into doing their heavy algorithmic lifting for them. And for a long time, their algorithm was better than most social media’s because it had more substantial buy-in. It was easier to get votes because votes are private and easier to get people invested in the content because of the “community” model.
Facebook and Twitter’s algos eventually got better at tweaking a bunch of knobs to maximize engagement, but in terms of UX, they always just felt random or like they were constantly fucking with their balance. I don’t think we saw any meaningful overhauls in algorithmic curation until TikTok. But maybe I’m missing some more niche platforms. Anyone else remember Phillip DeFranco launching a scrollable video news platform like years before TikTok was a thing?