Summary:
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn't go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.
My dude you're downvoting AI posts in an AI community explicitly against instance anti-brigading rules. You deserve it.
Edit: It seems I misunderstood the situation. That is questionable.
Is one person voting on their own from a single account considered "brigading" now?
When you have dozens of that one person the effect is the same. Downvoting something you don't like in an instance dedicated to that something derails the conversation and inserts unnecessary negativity ala downvote bots; at this point block the community and move on. Imagine if Lemmy had dozens of religious people downvoting the shit out of all posts on c/atheism or c/atheistmemes.
I just brigaded tf out of you then
Thanks ;)