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.
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!