Feels like the whole scene’s changed lately — between new rules, KYC walls, and crypto sites popping up everywhere.
Are people still sticking with the old-school bookies like Bet365 and Paddy Power, or is everyone jumping over to crypto casinos now?
Also, are welcome bonuses still a thing? I keep seeing offers that sound good but turn out to be trash when you read the fine print.
Would love to hear how folks here are actually playing in 2025 — what works, what doesn’t, and which platforms still feel fair to use.
Just, dont gamble. Of all the addictions to get, gambling has gotta be the most pathetic.
“Hurr immaddicted to burning my money”
Back to Reddit, Now!
Yeah no. If you want to gamble then go somewhere else. This is not the place for promoting unhealthy and addictive behaviours.
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Lemmy is pro gambling and reddit is anti gambling?
Lemmy is pro STFU and reddit is pro-preaching, maybe? IDGI either.
Yes. But more specifically I really dislike the redditism where someone asks a question and is met only with someone getting all upset about that question. E.g.;
OP: “Hey how do I do X?”
Comments: “Don’t do X. Why would you do X? I never do X. I am the moral and pragmatic centre of the universe so I know there is no reason to ever do X. You must be stupid to not be like me. No my underlying assumptions about your person don’t need to be evaluated. It is obvious that I am superior”
One time I asked linux_gaming to give me some reasons I shouldn’t game on Kali Linux, which I clarified as already using as my main and daily driver OS because I work in the sec field and most of what I do outside of work is CTFs and various HackTheBox machines and gaming was a small hobby not worth a separate OS install and disk use for me.
Anticipating the response I’d get, I made sure to mention that Kali is just convenient to have all the tooling available in one box, and as I do some hardware stuff I don’t use a VM. I made sure to mention I know it’s just Debian and there shouldn’t be any problems but just in case there’s some issues with steam that breaks something I figured I’d ask.
The responses?
“Uhh, Kali isn’t for gaming, use bazzite” “You must be new. Visit the FAQ” “No you can’t use it for gaming”
Especially the last, when I inquired as to why the user just kept stating over and over that it’s not what it’s for and it’s why it doesn’t work. His source? Kali FAQ that says the distro is intended for pentesting 🤦♀️
It was probably the only thing I ever got actually infuriated by on the internet. The motivation of pure spite got me playing CP2077 with Path Tracing on Kali by the end of the very same day.
Still, it just sucks.
It’s purest form pseudo-intellectualism, where people who pretend to think reveal themselves as navigating by vibes alone. I would imagine (but wouldn’t assume outright) that some of those people probably thought: “oh, LainTrain must be a newbie child (like me) and the only reason I’d use it is if I wanted to be l33t and (like me) LainTrain probably doesn’t know anything”.
Even with the redditism of endlessly providing context, people just don’t really read and still just imagine something completely different and attack that instead.
So that’s why I strongly dislike this shit. I would like the default assumption to be “person knows what they are doing and must know what they’re asking or they wouldn’t be asking”.
It’s frankly shocking to me how acceptable this paternalistic attitude got on the internet.
Like - No, it’s actually not progressive or cool to act like a 1950s housewife smelling marijuana every time someone mentions something that doesn’t seem like YouTube essayists would praise and promote.
Other than a technical label of the same species, folks other than you couldn’t be more different and you have no right to dictate to them how to live or what to do, never, no matter what white picket fence gated community ass “culture” “healthy” bullshit you contort.
Your rights end where theirs begin and vice versa and if bro wants to gamble let him gamble.
OP didn’t ask for a lecture. OP didn’t ask to be judged. OP just asked a question about what people do for gambling these days.
So to OP: if you’re still here, I don’t gamble, but I reckon after WSB GameStop saga, lots of folks moved onto CFDs and stuff like PolyMarket, but I see lads betting on horses too. Robinhood is available in the UK now, but we also have eToro. Their KYC is mostly theatre too. Don’t bother with T212 or anything more “legit” it’s impossible to get verified.
Leaving aside X-Y problems, sometimes people just want to do things that are unethical, or are begging a question, and the right response isn’t to engage with that but to contradict it. Gambling is scourge on society at these kinds of scales, and I can’t agree with undercutting the UK gov’t’s efforts to combat it.
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I’ll do it for £9!
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It’s been my experience that Lemmy is very anti-libertarian, so if you want to do something that isn’t being gay, doing crime, or hating on capitalism you’re going to get lectures.
As to your question, seems like the environment is too restrictive in the UK right now so people are outsourcing their gambling access. I lost interest in the subject after that(sorry most gambling adjacent I get is penny Texas hold 'em with some friends) and stopped looking.
