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There's no mechanism against brigading here but it would be interesting to see who the downvoters are (since that information is exposed to any federated instance admin anyway), and exposing them might actually be a good way to disincentivize rage-downvoting and other toxic behavior. I've been followed by the same 4~5 downvotes for a few days and then they apparently got bored and disappeared at the same time, but what was funny was that that number of downvotes appeared every time almost immediately after me posting anything (and I already have a few guesses as to who they might be).
Anyway, there's no karma system on Lemmy, so it's not as impactful as on Reddit, but it does introduce negative bias for others before they even read what you wrote.
So here is an upvote for you.
It's a bit vague from your post if you were referring to here or reddit, but I do want to inform the passerby that downvotes and upvotes are indeed public on Lemmy's API, and app devs coul implement a name list of who downvoted and upvoted you if they wanted.