With the first year of this community coming to a close I’ve gathered some of our top posts throughout the year. Here’s the top 10 posts:

  1. YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) (by @[email protected])
  2. The lack of ads! (by @[email protected])
  3. Can we stop buying these stupid things? Thanks (by @[email protected]
  4. Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy (by @[email protected])
  5. ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to ‘toxic interactions’ (by @[email protected])
  6. The absolute state of housing in Australia at the minute - rent a caravan in a driveway in a semi-rural locality, only $200/week! (by @[email protected])
  7. We won’t fix inflation while economists stay in denial about its causes (by @[email protected])
  8. Gas lobby launches new scare campaign on electrification, saying it will break the grid (by @[email protected])
  9. Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns (by @[email protected])
  10. Australia to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and depression in world first (by @[email protected])

The Top 10 is really only indicative of what people on other instances (mostly non-Australian) liked, what were your favourite posts this year? What would you like to see more of? And What would you like to see less of?

This year we also had the Voice to Parliament Referendum which lead to the creation of a Megathread and an annoying message from @[email protected] reminding us to use it. What did you think about how the community was run this year? What would you like us to do differently next year?

Thanks for the wonderful year everyone, and I look forward to seeing you all in the years to come. Also a big thanks to the Aussie Zone admins for making this all possible. But most of all, thank you to everyone who posted, commented, upvoted and downvoted for being the life of this community

  • Aussiemandeus
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    9 months ago

    Number 4 is the strangest thing to me,

    You would think competition and a competitive market would bring prices down.

    I think theres some serious price fixing going on here. Because all services are pretty much the same cost for varying value

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻OPM
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      9 months ago

      I guess the thing is streaming services aren’t really in competition with each other; if it were true competition they would all have access to the same content. I think they’re attitude is: You want to watch Star Wars and Silo? Too bad, you need two separate subscriptions for that. If there’s anyone that entertainment companies hate it’s their customers