There’s no reason to be afraid of people engaging with your opinion.
There’s no “brigading”, it’s simply a large instance of people who can see active threads, that’s all. They can’t downvote you, so are accustomed to responding to things thoughtfully and in earnest. There’s no reason to be afraid of them unless you literally want to see zero opposing views, or, unless you’d like to call them “tankies” or “bots” but can’t cope with similar treatment in kind.
telegraph getting upset about free markets?