TL;DR: I called out a defederation evader from hexbear.
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I haven't witnessed any direct brigading, but I can always tell when a post or comment is from them. I like seeing radically different ideas and opinions on occasion, but it would be a lot less irritating if they would drop the "it's not my job to educate you" stance. The majority of responses to elaboration are just name calling. Honestly, that whole aspect seems pretty antithetic to communism.
Anytime I've seen anything from there, it's always been abrasive at best and outright aggressive or hostile at worst. I've started likening it to the leftist 4chan of Lemmy.
Sometimes I wonder if they're an ancap psyop to make leftists as a whole look bad.
They are not rational people engaging in good-faith discussions. They even use some of the same lingo as alt-right cesspools ("shitlib," "glowie," etc.)