It's a load of lies. We (= Lemmygradians) used to be more active on Lemmy, but to call that brigading is a stretch. This is federation, if you don't want people to participate on other instances then you're in the wrong place.

Beehaw originally claimed they blocked us because WE filled up their hard drive because we were so active and they had to rehost our comments and uploaded media. And then they realised they left the log files from the installation (which was also a bug, to be fair). Whoops.

They just don't want to be exposed to communists. Beehaw claims to be a "chill" instance where like everyone is respectful and nice to each other but ask anyone here who interacted with a Beehaw user and "respectful" is not an adjective they will use. They like to post anti-communist memes, which I wouldn't call chill and respectful. Beehaw is rabidly anti-communist, they will ban you for creating an account on their instance if you have an account on lemmygrad, even if you follow their rules and everything.