In most lemmy instances, the default feed is a mix of that instance's and popular threads from other instances. Participating in such a thread that you find spontaneously is therefore not anything resembling "brigading," even if other people on your instance also see it spontaneously and participate.
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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Same stuff happened on Reddit. Threads would get popular and hit r/all, people would say they were being brigaded.
This is a very Lemmy-specific observation that isn't strictly true of other ActivityPub federated services.
You should also get off of ML if you don't like being affected by terrible admin decisions.
Upvotes and downvotes are not private. You may have to jump through a few hoops to see the information, but user IDs are attached to every upvote and downvote sent across the platform.
I DECLARE DOWNVOTE. LET IT BE KNOWN I DOWNVOTED THIS!
So people could see that JoeBiden42 or DonTrump46 uplemmied a yaoi post?
I think i heard somewhere that a request to delete content of yours is passed from instance to instance. It can be ignored too by specific instances I believe.
That's good to keep in mind with everything you send out to the internet.
Something to consider is that any given instance can be a bad actor and do whatever the hell they want.
Possibly this was me yesterday.
While such requests could be intentionally ignored, Iβm not of aware of a case where any actually have been. I canβt see why anyone would, and going rogue like that is liable to get your instance defederated.
How to monitor which instances ignored the request?
Why would it need to be monitored? I canβt think of a reason that an instance would not want to honor them, and if they were to, someone would eventually notice and complain. I donβt see a value in monitoring/policing it.
I don't have anything especially helpful to share, but maybe it's not so widely known that anyone can run their own ActivityPub instance and avoid some of the collateral damage caused by other admins.