I like the Voyager app, it helps integrate with piefed and has a lemmy community discovery feature, however I get this weird delay where communities appear blank the first time I land on them.

For sure. I’m with you. It’s clearly gambling regardless of the ridiculous loop hole they’ve decided to put it through.

There’s a big gap between having a punt on two-up and incentivising blokes to throw their life savings away on whether 100 kids will be vaporised in class tomorrow.

From the article

Most prediction markets, which have surged in popularity in recent months, are federally regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The agency views this new-fangled form of betting a “futures contract,” not a type of gambling.

I completely agree. I fucking hate gambling and I fucking hate how much Steam ignores all the damage they’re doing by chasing the easy money.

Well there you go… I guess I am in the minority on this. I don’t want these things anywhere near me or my family.

But yes I can imagine cops loving the idea of these things crushing protestors throats in the street.

Does anyone actually want this? Like it’s kind of interesting but is it actually something anyone wants?