An emergency alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. cellphones, TVs and radios. Here's what to expect.
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On Wednesday, Oct. 4, FEMA and the FCC will launch a nationwide test of the emergency alert system.

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.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nlEnglish
    1214·
    1 year ago

    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.eeEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      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.comEnglish
        82·
        1 year 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.nlEnglish
        32·
        1 year 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.socialEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      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.nlEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        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.socialEnglish
          11·
          1 year 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.

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      210·
      1 year ago

      Idk the last time we have a nation wide test, it’s news. Calm your tits, before we turn off your internet.