Yeah, I hear what you’re saying. I just think that the same could be said for upvote brigading. I agree, definitely report. I just feel that reporting places extra load on moderators that I think should be tending to more serious issues in their communities, and it’s just not in the spirit of the curation platform in my humble opinion.

I appreciate yours and the other comments as well. Lemmy.one is a great instance (a very fast and responsive server as well) but I think I'll be checking out some of the other, more purest-style forms of instances with all the traditional features I expect. But this is exactly why I love the fediverse - so cool that I can just jump over to a different instance that matches my style more closely.