BRUSSELS — After years of reducing its reliance on Russian gas, the European Union is moving to turn off the taps completely within the next two years.
The European Commission (EC) on May 6 presented a detailed roadmap to fully sever the European Union’s energy dependence on Russia by 2027.
Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen struck a defiant tone when announcing the plan: "No more shall Euros go into (Russia’s) war chest. Your gas will be banned. Your shadow fleet will be stopped."
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There’s been a big influx of users from Reddit and with it came the low effort one liner zingers and people allergic to reading the linked articles.
I do really like how a lot of people here post articles give a summary below their link. While it’s definitely not required, it is super helpful and makes it harder for people to just form opinions and start blabbing in the comments based on a headline.
I’m definitely guilty of not opening the article pretty often, and I really love when posters put a summary/highlights/entire article when it’s small in the body of the post. I actually do read/skim these pretty consistently vs opening and reading every single article in the feed.
Things get a little shittier for awhile every time there’s a mass migration, but it seems like most communities do a decent job holding newbies to a higher standard than reddit (read: any standard). Eventually Lemmy gets better again.
This only works if the influx of new users stay relatively low. See the Digg Exodus of how reddit got fucked up because Digg expelled their users too fast.
I suspect it may inevitably end up like Reddit. The problem IMO is comment visibility. Even if you’re not trying to farm karma, people like their comments to be visible. Everyone wants to have their voice heard. And it seems that short “zinger” comments and jokes are the most effective way to make that happen. The current community does support high effort quality comments well, but I think as we get diluted with more users it’s a slippery slide. I hope I’m wrong.
I think the rest of us need to apply pressure against that trend. I try to call out assholes in a civil fashion, at least so it makes it harder to be one, and I don’t upvote comments that don’t add to the conversation. I can’t downvote them since I’m on blahaj, so downvote them extra hard for me!