Okay I was totally lost but I think I figured it out.

[email protected] posted on the lemmy.world support forum. Somewhere deep in a thread involving a db0 user, [email protected] posts a screenshot supposedly from annihilation.social and also featuring users from poa.st, apparently nazi forums, where nazis are celebrating that they are successfully invading db0, and that one of them became an admin there. The link is not valid and it’s not clear if the screenshot is fake or not. The user who posted it, claims the thread got removed after a db0 admin saw it.

Basically somebody is accusing db0 of being invaded and run by nazis, posted a screenshot that can’t be verified nor disproven and now we are in conspiracy land.

It seems very far-fetched, not impossible but unless more concrete evidence emerges I’m safely putting this in the looney bin.

What does brigading mean?

To answer your second question specifically:

Are there Linux distributions that place a stronger emphasis on privacy?

Yes, luckily most distros do.

If you just want decent privacy, then honestly most of the popular distros are better than Ubuntu.

You are wrong about debt leading to inflation, that’s monetarism and has been thoroughly debunked.