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An emergency FEMA alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. TVs, radios and cellphones (www.cbsnews.com)
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An emergency FEMA alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. TVs, radios and cellphones::On Wednesday, Oct. 4, FEMA and the FCC will launch a nationwide test of the emergency alert system.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Should we also start posting this whenever any other country is going to do a test? Because I can imagine it'd be quite a busy page then. Not everyone is from the US, so imo we should keep this kinda stuff out of here.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe we can just let the score dictate which posts will have more visibility. If enough people are interested enough to upvote this such that it ends up in your feed, maybe many people are in the US.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

This has never worked on reddit and there's no reason why it would work here. That's why subreddits had moderation and things that were posted in the wrong sub got removed.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah that would not work, since a lot of people are in the US and have no consideration for other countries. I don't see how this is relevant to a community about technology. Sure, if they were using some cool and new technology, or a major law had changed, or even an article about how this works, it would be relevant. But this seems like a US-only PSA that doesn't really tell us anything.

Using upvotes only to moderate this type of content will just result in the Reddit issue, where a lot of general-purpose subreddits (like Politics or News) were completely dominated by US topics.

[–] calewerks@fanaticus.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This community is currently hosting lots of country, and region specific news. Not everyone is in the UK and impacted by their regulations. Not everyone is in Europe where they're testing the Facebook and Instagram ad-free subscription. Hell, not everyone is on those platforms so those stories aren't relevant to them. It would leave the community pretty empty at this point if we started moderating content according to its global relevance, especially when people always have the option to just scroll by.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't mind region specific news if it's about tech regulations or something. But a PSA about a regular emergency system test is not that

[–] calewerks@fanaticus.social 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'll agree with you there. I don't know the extent to which this bot is necessary given that it's not very discerning.