Curious, is your family American?

Have people pay a small fee to engage with the community. Ad revenue is not the only way to make money, remember the good old days when people actually paid for services that provide value?

Start with relying on donations and then make make it mandatory if required.

Ad revenue is a good way to make big profits, not just revenue, not something that we are interested in.

I'd be interested in this, subbed to frugal.

Oz Bargain is my go to for finding deals on new goods, https://www.ozbargain.com.au/deals.

Such a weak argument anyway!

For one, like you say, it's not even true. Even if it were true, who cares, how about we actually lead in some kind of progressive reform, instead of being a bloody backwater. Do we really want countries like the UK and USA to be our shining light of inspiration??

Politics and media over the last few decades have stunted Aussie and made us think that we cannot stand on our own too feet.

Thanks for sharing, that was a nice read. There is something incredible about standing at the base of a 90m tree, awe inspiring. I can't help to think back to a time when the southern parts of Australia were awash with giant trees, and then the Europeans came and could not cut them down fast enough.

Is there anywhere that shows what forest coverage would have looked like in Australia prior to European settlement?

I agree with this sentiment, so much stuff posted on there is just recycled information from different twitter accounts with nothing really of substance.

I reckon it will be one of the stadium ones, maybe the one with the ball at his feet.

Music to my ears Lodion :)

Are we all here for the 🔊 🧨 ?

NSW has the highest concentration of pokies outside of Las Vegas, we have a massive gambling problem and yes many people seem to not understand it.

With the recent rise in sports betting bullshit the gambling companies are doing their best to embed this as part of Aussie culture, which is shameful.

Gambling, and in particular sports betting and pokies, are a fucking stain on our nation.

Where is talk about gambling reform in the greater cost of living discussion? It's sure as hell not hoping, and it affects some of the most at risk groups.

It brings no value to our society.

That all looks pretty healthy, the key will be maintaining momentum. Thanks for sharing.

As a nerd I appreciate this. Seems like good incremental improvement going on in the Lemmy backend side of things.

As an instance hoster, does Lemmy provide documentation around tuning and keeping your instance efficient?

I grew up on a property where surrounding farms deployed 1080, dad held one of our dogs in his arms as it writhed in pain and died from 1080 poisoning. Horrific experience, absolute cunts.

Indescriminant killing that has an unknown impact on the ecosystem.

It should be illegal to bait like that.

Beautiful shot! What time was this?

I'm using Jerboa on Android and it seems to work well.

Halve it I reckon, Chelsea are in dreamland... Would definitely take him though!

Looks like it's largely you and I here for the moment!

That sounds like fun. I'm off for some whale watching with CoastXP tomorrow morning, stoked the weather is looking good. Hopefully get some bonus dolphins too.

Then off to a friends place near Paterson for a table tennis night tomorrow night, should be good fun!

What device / os are you using it on? I have it on a Pixel 4a and it works with no issues that I've noticed, been smooth sailing. Coming from RIF it also feels fairly familiar.

Yup, agree totally. Only way it can work is if the org running it is a not for profit with great transparency, which hopefully is what we will see with the likes of Lemmy etc.

There is an argument to make that things like reddit or even Facebook (original fb, not what it is now) should be publicly owned services. They CAN provide value to society, similar to how a town hall can.

I just finished watched Alone: Australia, one guy didn't eat for over 20 days. Fasting may be a good option for avoiding needing to poo. I'd imagine you'd have to start that process maybe a day or two early. To get the best effect.