I was having a look through one of their daily threads, and there was a bunch of active /r/melbourne people that were basically saying they had migrated to lemmy. They were contacting each other on reddit (PM I guess) and then just joining up.
Mass migration lol. So they 3 times more subscribers and seems like these were the core of /r/melbourne.
For real! And get some proper insulation - both weather/temperature and noise.
It’s easy to live in denser housing when you don’t alternately bake or freeze, and you can’t hear every neighbour in all 6 directions.
Copying a post I did earlier in the week:
That 4 corners report was a bit of an eye opener.
I hadn’t realised that eg, Football Australia had signed contracts with sports betting related companies, and that they actually get a cut of each bet. And “The NRL earnt 50 million dollars last year from this agreement. It takes a 1-point-2 per cent commission from every bet in Australia on its games, more for riskier bets and gambling on big games like the State of Origin and finals. On some bets … the NRL can take 17.5 per cent of a bookmaker’s profit.”
They won’t want to do anything to reduce gambling. They are incentivised to increase gambling !!
Sigh, first we had some religious whacko’s wrecking indigenous art, now these whackos from the Cult of the Self.
Can’t we just leave other people’s shit alone, and all just get along ?